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JACKLIN MEGGS BOATWRIGHT
Technical Sergeant · U.S. Air Force
October 18, 1938 – September 4, 1967
Service recordJacklin Meggs Boatwright, of Nashville, Arkansas, served as a Technical Sergeant in the U.S. Air Force. He died on September 4, 1967, in Lam Dong Province, South Vietnam, at age 28. His name is inscribed on Panel 25E, Line 95 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 25E · Line 95
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. Air Force
- Rank
- Technical Sergeant (TSGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Born
- October 18, 1938
- Home of record
- Nashville, Arkansas (Howard County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 4, 1967
- Age
- 28
- Province
- Lam Dong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
91 names on the Wall carry the date September 4, 1967; 11 of them were lost in Lam Dong Province. In September 1967, 929 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 25E, Line 95
- JOHN RAMAGE BARBOURPetty Officer Third Class · September 4, 1967
- JACK ALBERT BERRYLance Corporal · September 4, 1967
- WILLIAM CARL BURNS JRHospitalman · September 4, 1967
- VINCENT ROBERT CAPODANNOLieutenant · September 4, 1967
From Nashville
- WALTER ALLAN LINZYLieutenant · May 26, 1966
- VERNON BROWN JRPrivate First Class · June 18, 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.