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Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969.
Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969. Photo: U.S. Marine Corps, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of James Andrew Jones.

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JAMES ANDREW JONES

Lance Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps

August 14, 1944 – September 7, 1967

Service record

James Andrew Jones, of Seneca, Illinois, served as a Lance Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on September 7, 1967, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 26E, Line 26 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 26E · Line 26

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Service

Branch
U.S. Marine Corps
Rank
Lance Corporal (LCPL)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Occupation
Combat Engineer (1371)
Born
August 14, 1944
Home of record
Seneca, Illinois (Mchenry County)

Casualty

Date of death
September 7, 1967
Age
23
Province
Quang Tin
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

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62 names on the Wall carry the date September 7, 1967; three of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In September 1967, 929 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

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Also on Panel 26E, Line 26

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.