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JEHOVAH GRAVES
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
September 18, 1942 – January 30, 1968
Service recordJehovah Graves, of Columbia, South Carolina, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on January 30, 1968, in Phuoc Long Province, South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 35E, Line 71 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 35E · Line 71
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- September 18, 1942
- Home of record
- Columbia, South Carolina (Richland County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 30, 1968
- Age
- 25
- Province
- Phuoc Long
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
99 names on the Wall carry the date January 30, 1968; two of them were lost in Phuoc Long Province. In January 1968, 1,546 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 73 of its members that month.
He died in Phuoc Long Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Also on Panel 35E, Line 71
- RICHARD PAUL GRAYPrivate First Class · January 30, 1968
- JAMES LEONARD GREENE JRPrivate First Class · January 30, 1968
- LAWRENCE DOUGLAS GREENEFirst Lieutenant · January 30, 1968
- WILLIAM EFREN GRENNAYPrivate First Class · January 30, 1968
Same unit, same day
- DELL COLEMAN ODEGARDCorporal · Panel 35E, Line 78
From Columbia
- EARTHELL TYLERSergeant · November 17, 1965
- LUIS BELT R LOPEZPlatoon Sergeant · December 5, 1965
- EDDIE KENNETH WILLIAMSPrivate First Class · June 30, 1966
- THOMAS JASPER MAULDINStaff Sergeant · September 3, 1966
- CHARLES EDWARD MACMICHAELSergeant First Class · September 17, 1966
- RICHARD FLOYD WALTERSPrivate First Class · October 2, 1966
- CARROLL U THOMPSONCaptain · November 11, 1966
- DOUGLAS THOMAS JRAirman · August 4, 1966
- FORDHAM E FINCH JRPrivate First Class · January 13, 1967
- RICHARD BELTON BROCKMANCaptain · January 17, 1967
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.