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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault.
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Jack Sizemore SR.

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JACK SIZEMORE SR

Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army

December 16, 1937 – September 23, 1968

Service record

Jack Sizemore SR, of Boonville, North Carolina, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on September 23, 1968, in Pleiku Province, South Vietnam, at age 30. His name is inscribed on Panel 42W, Line 1 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 42W · Line 1

Position of Panel 42W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Aircraft Quality Control Supervisor (67W)
Born
December 16, 1937
Home of record
Boonville, North Carolina (Yadkin County)

Casualty

Date of death
September 23, 1968
Age
30
Province
Pleiku
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)

Context · from the records

What was happening

25 names on the Wall carry the date September 23, 1968; three of them were lost in Pleiku Province. In September 1968, 1,184 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 42W, Line 1

From Boonville

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.