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JACK WILLIAM WILKINSON
Petty Officer First Class · U.S. Navy
June 18, 1927 – August 30, 1967
Service recordJack William Wilkinson, of East Islip, New York, served as a Petty Officer First Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on August 30, 1967, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 40. His name is inscribed on Panel 25E, Line 72 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 25E · Line 72
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. Navy
- Rank
- Petty Officer First Class (PO1)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Construction Mechanic (CM)
- Unit (as recorded)
- NMCB 3 3 NC BDE
- Born
- June 18, 1927
- Home of record
- East Islip, New York (Suffolk County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 30, 1967
- Age
- 40
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
32 names on the Wall carry the date August 30, 1967; two of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In August 1967, 683 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “NMCB 3 3 NC BDE”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 25E, Line 72
- ALFRED JAMES SMITHCorporal · August 30, 1967
- HARVIE G SMITHSpecialist Four · August 30, 1967
- CHARLES DANNIE TURNBOUGHLance Corporal · August 30, 1967
- CHARLES ROBERT WILKERSONSergeant First Class · August 30, 1967
Same unit, same day
- DOUGLAS CARROLL COKERPetty Officer Third Class · Panel 25E, Line 68
From East Islip
- FRANK SARDINASpecialist Four · February 28, 1968
- ROBERT CHARLES KIMMELFirst Lieutenant · April 25, 1968
- GUSTAV ALFRED JOHANNSENPrivate First Class · June 3, 1968
- JOHN THOMPSON STIMSON JRPrivate First Class · October 31, 1968
- JOSEPH EDWIN NESKEPrivate First Class · March 7, 1969
- FRANCIS XAVIER BUNKSpecialist Four · November 11, 1970
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.