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JEFFREY CHARLES LEMON
Lieutenant Colonel · U.S. Air Force
August 13, 1943 – April 25, 1971
Service recordJeffrey Charles Lemon, of Flossmoor, Illinois, served as a Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Air Force. He was lost on April 25, 1971, in Laos, and was later declared dead. His name is inscribed on Panel 3W, Line 12 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 3W · Line 12
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Air Force
- Rank
- Lieutenant Colonel (LTCOL)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Pilot (1115F)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 421 TFS 366 TFW
- Born
- August 13, 1943
- Home of record
- Flossmoor, Illinois (Cook County)
Casualty
- Date of loss
- April 25, 1971
- Country
- Laos
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Declared Dead
- Circumstance
- Aircraft Crash — crew
- First reported
- Missing in action
- Remains
- Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record
Context · from the records
What was happening
Eight names on the Wall carry the date April 25, 1971. In April 1971, 292 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “421 TFS 366 TFW”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
He died in Laos while the air war over Laos was under way. From 1964 to 1973, U.S. aircraft bombed the Ho Chi Minh Trail and supported the war in northern Laos; many of the Americans lost over Laos were never recovered.
His remains had not been recovered when the 2008 record was compiled. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency continues to search for Americans still missing from the war; families can find case information through dpaa.mil.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 3W, Line 12
- JOHN DAVID NIXSergeant · April 25, 1971
- WALTER HARRI SIGAFOOS IIICaptain · April 25, 1971
- CHARLES WILLIAM WARNER JRSpecialist Four · April 25, 1971
- JOHNIE KENNETH WOODARDSpecialist Five · April 25, 1971
Same unit, same day
- WALTER HARRI SIGAFOOS IIICaptain · Panel 3W, Line 12
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.