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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 Jeffrey Sanders Tigner.

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JEFFREY SANDERS TIGNER

Private First Class · U.S. Army

January 11, 1944 – August 29, 1968

Service record

Jeffrey Sanders Tigner, of Riverside, Connecticut, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on August 29, 1968, in Hua Nghia Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 45W, Line 3 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 45W · Line 3

Position of Panel 45W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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. Army
Rank
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
25 INF DIV
Born
January 11, 1944
Home of record
Riverside, Connecticut (Fairfield County)

Casualty

Date of death
August 29, 1968
Age
24
Province
Hua Nghia
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Artillery/Mortar/Rocket

Context · from the records

What was happening

54 names on the Wall carry the date August 29, 1968; four of them were lost in Hua Nghia Province. In August 1968, 1,313 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 134 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 45W, Line 3

Same unit, same day

From Riverside

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.