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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 Jerry Jackson McDaniel.

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JERRY JACKSON MCDANIEL

Private First Class · U.S. Army

July 2, 1946 – December 28, 1967

Service record

Jerry Jackson McDaniel, of Winder, Georgia, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on December 28, 1967, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 32E, Line 88 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 32E · Line 88

Position of Panel 32E 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
July 2, 1946
Home of record
Winder, Georgia (Barrow County)

Casualty

Date of death
December 28, 1967
Age
21
Province
Tay Ninh
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Unknown

Context · from the records

What was happening

31 names on the Wall carry the date December 28, 1967; four of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In December 1967, 937 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 106 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 32E, Line 88

Same unit, same day

From Winder

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.