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A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967.
A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967. Photo: SP5 Robert C. Lafoon, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Jasper Ray Conway.

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JASPER RAY CONWAY

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

December 21, 1942 – November 21, 1966

Service record

Jasper Ray Conway, of Ayden, North Carolina, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on November 21, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 12E, Line 99 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 12E · Line 99

Position of Panel 12E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
1 INF DIV
Born
December 21, 1942
Home of record
Ayden, North Carolina (Pitt County)

Casualty

Date of death
November 21, 1966
Age
23
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Grenade

Context · from the records

What was happening

50 names on the Wall carry the date November 21, 1966. In November 1966, 641 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 77 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 12E, Line 99

Same unit, same day

From Ayden

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.