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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 Jackie Dale Walker.

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JACKIE DALE WALKER

Private First Class · U.S. Army

April 7, 1948 – April 23, 1968

Service record

Jackie Dale Walker, of Okemah, Oklahoma, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on April 23, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 51E, Line 43 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 51E · Line 43

Position of Panel 51E 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
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
101 AIRBORNE DIV
Born
April 7, 1948
Home of record
Okemah, Oklahoma (Okfuskee County)

Casualty

Date of death
April 23, 1968
Age
20
Province
Thua Thien
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Died of Wounds
Circumstance
Artillery/Mortar/Rocket

Context · from the records

What was happening

43 names on the Wall carry the date April 23, 1968; 18 of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 189 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 51E, Line 43

Same unit, same day

From Okemah

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.