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JAKE HAROLD VANMETER JR
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
May 8, 1943 – October 7, 1967
Service recordJake Harold Vanmeter JR, of Slatyfork, West Virginia, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on October 7, 1967, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 27E, Line 67 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 27E · Line 67
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
- Born
- May 8, 1943
- Home of record
- Slatyfork, West Virginia (Pocahontas County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 7, 1967
- Age
- 24
- Province
- Binh Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
24 names on the Wall carry the date October 7, 1967; five of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In October 1967, 906 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 84 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 27E, Line 67
- MARK ANTHONY RIGGLECorporal · October 7, 1967
- JAMES ARNOLD STOEBERLSpecialist Five · October 7, 1967
- SAMUEL DONALD AMANTEASpecialist Four · October 8, 1967
- ROBERT WILLIAM ANDERSONMajor · October 8, 1967
Same unit, same day
- VAUN ANDREWSSergeant · Panel 27E, Line 62
- JAMES OTIS BEASLEYPrivate First Class · Panel 27E, Line 63
- RONALD JOSEPH CARTWRIGHTPrivate First Class · Panel 27E, Line 63
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.