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JEFFERY EVANS MEAD
Lance Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps
May 25, 1947 – March 12, 1968
Service recordJeffery Evans Mead, of Janesville, Wisconsin, served as a Lance Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on March 12, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 44E, Line 29 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 44E · Line 29
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
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- May 25, 1947
- Home of record
- Janesville, Wisconsin (Rock County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 12, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
43 names on the Wall carry the date March 12, 1968; 21 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in Quảng Trị Province while the siege of Khe Sanh was under way. From 21 January 1968, North Vietnamese divisions besieged the Marine combat base at Khe Sanh and its hill outposts near the Laotian border for 77 days, while U.S. aircraft dropped some 100,000 tons of bombs around it. Operation Pegasus reached the base on 8 April. 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 44E, Line 29
- JOHN GARY GRIFFITHLieutenant Commander · March 12, 1968
- HAROLD METCALFPrivate First Class · March 12, 1968
- DANIEL VICTOR MICHELPrivate First Class · March 12, 1968
- JOSE SANCHEZ MONTEMAYORSpecialist Four · March 12, 1968
From Janesville
- WILLIAM JOSEPH SCHNEIDERSpecialist Four · December 1, 1966
- ROBERT ALLEN MCCARTNEYSergeant · April 15, 1967
- VINCENT JAMES AGIUSLance Corporal · April 17, 1967
- RALPH MICHAEL WIXSONPrivate First Class · May 16, 1967
- JOHN MCFARLAND KESSINGERMajor · July 2, 1967
- JOHN JUNIOR FIEDLERPetty Officer First Class · July 29, 1967
- DONALD WILLIAM DOWNINGLieutenant Colonel · September 5, 1967
- DAVID LEE DROUGHTSergeant · December 31, 1967
- HARRY WARREN SCHNEIDERCorporal · February 16, 1968
- TIMOTHY CHARLES AGARDSpecialist Four · February 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.