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JACK LEE CONNORS
Private First Class · U.S. Army
December 1, 1945 – August 21, 1969
Service recordJack Lee Connors, of Filion, Michigan, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on August 21, 1969, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 19W, Line 85 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 19W · Line 85
Names are inscribed in the order of loss, starting at Panel 1E at the apex and ending at Panel 1W. At the Memorial, find the panel number at the base and count down from the top line.
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 196 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- December 1, 1945
- Home of record
- Filion, Michigan (Huron County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 21, 1969
- Age
- 23
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
32 names on the Wall carry the date August 21, 1969; 14 of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In August 1969, 962 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 196th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 74 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 19W, Line 85
- DENNIS ANTHONY CUNNINGHAMCorporal · August 21, 1969
- JAMES MICHAEL EARLYSergeant First Class · August 21, 1969
- DENNIS LAVERNE ENGLISHPrivate · August 21, 1969
- RUPERT A FUNDERBURK JRWarrant Officer 1 · August 21, 1969
Same unit, same day
- ROBERT ARTHUR JONESPrivate First Class · Panel 19W, Line 87
- WILLIAM MIRANDACorporal · Panel 19W, Line 88
- RUDOLPH STEPHEN PARRISHPrivate First Class · Panel 19W, Line 89
- LUIS E QUINTANA-SOTOPrivate First Class · Panel 19W, Line 89
From Filion
- WILLIAM HUMPHREY NELSONColonel · July 20, 1966
- WILLIAM GALAN DAVIDSONPrivate First Class · November 11, 1967
Source. U.S. Department of Defense, Defense Casualty Analysis System, Vietnam Conflict Extract Data File (as of April 29, 2008), Records of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Record Group 330, National Archives (NAID 2240992). Panel and line as recorded in that file. This page presents the official record and its historical context; no biography has been written for him yet. See something wrong? Report a correction.