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JAMES OAKLEY JAYNES
Lance Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps
October 5, 1948 – April 25, 1968
Service recordJames Oakley Jaynes, of Chuckey, Tennessee, served as a Lance Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on April 25, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 52E, Line 6 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 52E · Line 6
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Lance Corporal (LCPL)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- M60a1 Tank Crewman (1811)
- Born
- October 5, 1948
- Home of record
- Chuckey, Tennessee (Greene County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 25, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Burns/Smoke Inhalation
Context · from the records
What was happening
53 names on the Wall carry the date April 25, 1968; 14 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 52E, Line 6
- RONALD JAMES COLONESpecialist Four · April 25, 1968
- DONALD RAY HANNACorporal · April 25, 1968
- DENNIS WAYNE HOFFPrivate First Class · April 25, 1968
- DANIEL MARTIN KELLEYSpecialist Four · April 25, 1968
From Chuckey
- HARVEY JUNIOR PROFITTPrivate First Class · June 11, 1966
- BOBBY EARNEST HUNTStaff Sergeant · May 1, 1967
- OLIVER NATHANIEL THOMPSONSpecialist Five · November 14, 1969
- FLOYD WATSEL LAMB JRSpecialist Four · May 4, 1970
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.