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JACK PHILLIP BROADHEAD
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
April 30, 1938 – December 2, 1967
Service recordJack Phillip Broadhead, of Mccalla, Alabama, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on December 2, 1967, in Long An Province, South Vietnam, at age 29. His name is inscribed on Panel 31E, Line 22 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 31E · Line 22
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
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- April 30, 1938
- Home of record
- Mccalla, Alabama (Jefferson County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 2, 1967
- Age
- 29
- Province
- Long An
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
26 names on the Wall carry the date December 2, 1967; two of them were lost in Long An Province. In December 1967, 937 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 45 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 31E, Line 22
- CARLOS AUGUSTO PEREZSergeant · December 1, 1967
- HOMERO PEREZStaff Sergeant · December 1, 1967
- PHILLIP PAUL SUMMERSSpecialist Five · December 1, 1967
- MARVIN DALE BANARLance Corporal · December 2, 1967
Same unit, same day
- WAYNE JOSEPH STOKESPrivate First Class · Panel 31E, Line 26
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.