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JACK MARION JONES
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
February 15, 1936 – March 29, 1968
Service recordJack Marion Jones, of Childersburg, Alabama, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on March 29, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 32. His name is inscribed on Panel 47E, Line 7 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 47E · Line 7
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
- Sergeant First Class (SFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 3/5 CAV 9 INF DIV
- Born
- February 15, 1936
- Home of record
- Childersburg, Alabama (Talladega County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 29, 1968
- Age
- 32
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
42 names on the Wall carry the date March 29, 1968; 20 of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “3/5 CAV 9 INF DIV”, his unit in the record, lost 20 of its members that month.
He died in Thừa Thiên Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Also on Panel 47E, Line 7
- PHILIP BRUCE WENRICKPrivate First Class · March 29, 1968
- PAUL EDWARD WILLIAMSPrivate First Class · March 29, 1968
- DAVID ALAN ALDRICHCorporal · March 30, 1968
- DAVID BRUCE ANDERSONPrivate First Class · March 30, 1968
From Childersburg
- MELTON HOWARD PRESLEYSpecialist Four · March 9, 1968
- BARRY COLEY TOMLINCaptain · May 10, 1972
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.