The Wall › Panel 39E › Georgia › Jackie Marcell Morgan
JACKIE MARCELL MORGAN
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
March 6, 1941 – February 16, 1968
Service recordJackie Marcell Morgan, of Homerville, Georgia, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on February 16, 1968, in Gia Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 26. His name is inscribed on Panel 39E, Line 64 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 39E · Line 64
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.
Remember
Did you know him? Family members and friends are invited to share a photograph or a memory. Nothing is posted until it has been reviewed.
Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Five (SP5)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Armor Crewman (11E)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 INF DIV
- Born
- March 6, 1941
- Home of record
- Homerville, Georgia (Clinch County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 16, 1968
- Age
- 26
- Province
- Gia Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Burns/Smoke Inhalation
Context · from the records
What was happening
61 names on the Wall carry the date February 16, 1968; 11 of them were lost in Gia Dinh Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 125 of its members that month.
He died in Gia Dinh 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 39E, Line 64
- BENNIE EUGENE MCCORKLESpecialist Four · February 16, 1968
- HAROLD GUINN MCDOWELLPrivate First Class · February 16, 1968
- THOMAS HALL MORRISStaff Sergeant · February 16, 1968
- DONALD JAMES WIELINSKILance Corporal · February 16, 1968
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.