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JACKIE SHIRL UNDERWOOD
Private First Class · U.S. Army
October 24, 1949 – November 14, 1968
Service recordJackie Shirl Underwood, of Pleasant Shade, Tennessee, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on November 14, 1968, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 39W, Line 69 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 39W · Line 69
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
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- October 24, 1949
- Home of record
- Pleasant Shade, Tennessee (Smith County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 14, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Binh Duong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
29 names on the Wall carry the date November 14, 1968; six of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In November 1968, 918 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 96 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 39W, Line 69
- KARL EDWIN WEBERPrivate First Class · November 14, 1968
- FRANCIS CLAYBURN AKI JRSergeant · November 15, 1968
- JAMES DOUGLAS BIRCHIMCaptain · November 15, 1968
- WILLIAM ERNEST BROWNSpecialist Four · November 15, 1968
Same unit, same day
- DAVID ALFORD BRADSHAWSpecialist Four · Panel 39W, Line 63
- WILLIAM EUGENE CARLSONCorporal · Panel 39W, Line 64
- LESTER RAY DAVISPrivate First Class · Panel 39W, Line 64
- WAYNE MORRIS HORNEPrivate First Class · Panel 39W, Line 67
- ROBERT TAYLOR JONES JRPrivate First Class · Panel 39W, Line 67
- LARRY LEE JOHNSONPrivate First Class · Panel 39W, Line 68
From Pleasant Shade
- CHARLES RALPH HOLLANDPrivate First Class · December 19, 1967
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.