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JACK RAY LOCKRIDGE
Sergeant · U.S. Army
July 19, 1932 – January 31, 1968
Service recordJack Ray Lockridge, of Piedmont, Alabama, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on January 31, 1968, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 35. His name is inscribed on Panel 36E, Line 22 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 36E · 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
- Sergeant (SGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Armor Crewman (11E)
- Unit (as recorded)
- AMERICAL DIV
- Born
- July 19, 1932
- Home of record
- Piedmont, Alabama (Calhoun County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 31, 1968
- Age
- 35
- Province
- Quang Tin
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
246 names on the Wall carry the date January 31, 1968; nine of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In January 1968, 1,546 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The Americal Division, his unit in the record, lost 12 of its members that month.
He died in Quảng Tín 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 36E, Line 22
- STANLEY LEWISLieutenant · January 31, 1968
- TROY A LITTLEJOHNSergeant · January 31, 1968
- NORMAN LACY LONG JRSpecialist Four · January 31, 1968
- ERNEST MADRIDSergeant · January 31, 1968
Same unit, same day
- EDGAR LEE BOLDINGSergeant · Panel 35E, Line 87
From Piedmont
- MARVIN KENNY PENLANDPrivate First Class · May 21, 1966
- JOSEPH HILLMAN IIIFirst Lieutenant · July 22, 1968
- DAVID WAYNE LEDBETTERPrivate First Class · August 21, 1968
- JEAN WAYNE PUCKETTPrivate First Class · December 27, 1968
- VERNON GLEN HOLBROOKSergeant First Class · November 10, 1969
- LEAGRANT BADGETTStaff Sergeant · September 21, 1971
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.