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JAMES EARL JENKINS
Private First Class · U.S. Army
February 21, 1947 – November 12, 1967
Service recordJames Earl Jenkins, of High Point, North Carolina, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on November 12, 1967, in Kontum Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 29E, Line 83 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 29E · Line 83
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
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- February 21, 1947
- Home of record
- High Point, North Carolina (Guilford County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 12, 1967
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Kontum
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
37 names on the Wall carry the date November 12, 1967; 15 of them were lost in Kon Tum Province. In November 1967, 1,133 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 212 of its members that month.
He died in Kon Tum Province while the Battle of Đắk Tô was under way. Around Đắk Tô in the Central Highlands (3–23 November 1967), the 4th Infantry Division and the 173rd Airborne Brigade fought North Vietnamese regiments for the hills along the border, ending with the assault on Hill 875 on Thanksgiving Day. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Read the history
Also on Panel 29E, Line 83
- JAMES GARY HOODPrivate First Class · November 12, 1967
- JERRY CONRAD KELLEYSpecialist Four · November 12, 1967
- DANIEL EDMUND KLOS JRSpecialist Four · November 12, 1967
- ROBERT CHARLES MELENDREZSpecialist Four · November 12, 1967
Same unit, same day
- DAN S ALLEN IIISergeant · Panel 29E, Line 79
- JOHN HENRY BARNESPrivate First Class · Panel 29E, Line 80
- HAROLD EUGENE COUCHSergeant · Panel 29E, Line 80
- HUBERT CROOMPrivate First Class · Panel 29E, Line 81
- ALDON JAMES DEDEAUXPrivate First Class · Panel 29E, Line 81
- ARMANDO LEO ESCARENOPrivate First Class · Panel 29E, Line 81
- CHARLES FAVROTHSergeant · Panel 29E, Line 81
- DANIEL WILLIAM FOSTERSpecialist Four · Panel 29E, Line 82
- WILEY GUERREROPrivate First Class · Panel 29E, Line 82
- ABRAHAM LINCOLN HARDYCaptain · Panel 29E, Line 82
- JERRY CONRAD KELLEYSpecialist Four · Panel 29E, Line 83
- JOHN ANDREW BARNES IIIPrivate First Class · Panel 29E, Line 84
- CHARLES H MORRIS JRPrivate First Class · Panel 29E, Line 84
- LEONARD ALAN THOMASPrivate First Class · Panel 29E, Line 86
From High Point
- CHARLES CLAYBOURN COXSergeant · November 4, 1965
- VICKEY EARL STANLEYPrivate First Class · September 27, 1966
- PHILIP OWEN PARRISHPrivate First Class · June 2, 1967
- REMBERT CRAWFORD JRStaff Sergeant · February 5, 1968
- FLOYD TYRONE SPENCERSergeant · March 11, 1968
- HASKER LEE NESBITT JRPrivate First Class · May 19, 1968
- JOHN ULMER MCALISTERStaff Sergeant · May 23, 1968
- MILTON EUGENE FLOWERSCorporal · May 29, 1968
- RONALD LEE MABEPrivate First Class · May 29, 1968
- MICHAEL DAVID HELMSTETLERFirst Lieutenant · June 19, 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.