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Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969.
Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969. Photo: U.S. Marine Corps, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Jerome Nixon.

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JEROME NIXON

Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps

February 22, 1947 – March 23, 1966

Service record

Jerome Nixon, of Kansas City, Missouri, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on March 23, 1966, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 6E, Line 42 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 6E · Line 42

Position of Panel 6E 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. Marine Corps
Rank
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Rifleman (0311)
Unit (as recorded)
G CO 2 BN 3 MAR 3 MARDIV
Born
February 22, 1947
Home of record
Kansas City, Missouri (Multiple County)

Casualty

Date of death
March 23, 1966
Age
19
Province
Quang Nam
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Unknown

Context · from the records

What was happening

12 names on the Wall carry the date March 23, 1966; three of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In March 1966, 564 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The unit recorded as “G CO 2 BN 3 MAR 3 MARDIV”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 6E, Line 42

From Kansas City

All 150 names from Kansas City →

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.