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JEFFREY ROSS SEXTON

Second Lieutenant · U.S. Army

January 15, 1945 – June 22, 1967

Service record

Jeffrey Ross Sexton, of Maricopa, Arizona, served as a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on June 22, 1967, in Kontum Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 22E, Line 49 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 22E · Line 49

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Service

Branch: U.S. Army
Rank: Second Lieutenant (2LT)
Service: Reserve / National Guard
Occupation: Parachutist, Infantry Unit Commander (71542)
Unit (as recorded): 173 AIRBORNE BDE
Born: January 15, 1945
Home of record: Maricopa, Arizona (Pinal County)

Casualty

Date of death: June 22, 1967
Age: 22
Province: Kontum
Country: South Vietnam
Casualty type: Hostile
Category: Killed in Action
Circumstance: Grenade

Context · from the records

What was happening

87 names on the Wall carry the date June 22, 1967; 78 of them were lost in Kon Tum Province. In June 1967, 948 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 85 of its members that month.

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Remembered on June 22

Elsewhere

Also on Panel 22E, Line 49

JAMES WALTER SANFORDPrivate First Class · June 22, 1967
WARREN H SCHROBILGEN JRPrivate First Class · June 22, 1967
JOHN SHARBER JRSpecialist Four · June 22, 1967
LLOYD EDGAR SMITHSpecialist Four · June 22, 1967

Same unit, same day

TERRY LEE ODIS ALLENPrivate First Class · Panel 22E, Line 35
ERLING ALTON ANDERSONPrivate First Class · Panel 22E, Line 35
JAMES ARNOLDPrivate First Class · Panel 22E, Line 35
WILLIAM JOSEPH BOEHMPrivate First Class · Panel 22E, Line 36
ERVIN L BURNSFirst Lieutenant · Panel 22E, Line 36
ALBERT BUTLER JRPrivate First Class · Panel 22E, Line 36
DARRELL WAYNE BUTTSPrivate First Class · Panel 22E, Line 36
CARLIN MARTIN CAMPBELL JRPrivate First Class · Panel 22E, Line 37
THORNE M CLARK IIIPrivate First Class · Panel 22E, Line 37
THOMAS ALFRED DESCHENESSpecialist Four · Panel 22E, Line 37
JACK LESTER CRIPESpecialist Four · Panel 22E, Line 38
CHARLES ORVIS DEEDRICK JRSpecialist Four · Panel 22E, Line 38
LLOYD DWAIN DELOACHSpecialist Four · Panel 22E, Line 38
LESTER MICHAEL DERISOPrivate First Class · Panel 22E, Line 38
RONALD CLEVELAND CLARKSpecialist Four · Panel 22E, Line 39
THOMAS BENEDICT DUFFY JRPrivate First Class · Panel 22E, Line 39
TIMOTHY JAMES EGANPrivate First Class · Panel 22E, Line 39
JAMES RICHARD EMMERTSergeant · Panel 22E, Line 39
RUSSEL WARREN ENGLESpecialist Four · Panel 22E, Line 39
BOBBY LEE FINNEYSpecialist Four · Panel 22E, Line 40
BURRELL GIBSONSpecialist Four · Panel 22E, Line 40
KENNETH LAWRENCE GREENEPrivate First Class · Panel 22E, Line 40
DAVID JUNIOR HELLERPrivate First Class · Panel 22E, Line 41
ALVIN GENE HILLSergeant · Panel 22E, Line 41

From Maricopa

GENE LAWRENCE KUVIKStaff Sergeant · January 29, 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.