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JEIDER JACKSON WARREN
Petty Officer First Class · U.S. Navy
October 28, 1931 – February 27, 1968
Service recordJeider Jackson Warren, of Castor, Louisiana, served as a Petty Officer First Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on February 27, 1968, in South Vietnam, at age 36. His name is inscribed on Panel 41E, Line 56 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 41E · Line 56
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Navy
- Rank
- Petty Officer First Class (PO1)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Boatswain's Mate (BM)
- Unit (as recorded)
- MOBILE RIVERINE FORCE TF 117 SQ 11 ASLT DIV 11
- Born
- October 28, 1931
- Home of record
- Castor, Louisiana
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 27, 1968
- Age
- 36
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
56 names on the Wall carry the date February 27, 1968. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “MOBILE RIVERINE FORCE TF 117 SQ 11 ASLT DIV 11”, his unit in the record, lost 3 of its members that month.
He died in South Vietnam 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 41E, Line 56
- JOSE RAFAEL TAVAREZSergeant · February 27, 1968
- JIMMY MICHAEL TROLLINGERPrivate First Class · February 27, 1968
- ANTHONY NICHOLAS VALENTEGunnery Sergeant · February 27, 1968
- VERNON LEWIS WALKERSergeant First Class · February 27, 1968
Same unit, same day
- JAMES LAWRENCE LIENPetty Officer Third Class · Panel 41E, Line 51
From Castor
- JOE JEFFERSON BRACKENSPrivate First Class · January 6, 1969
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.