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JERRY LYNN POOL
Captain · U.S. Army
April 2, 1944 – March 24, 1970
Service recordJerry Lynn Pool, of Freeport, Illinois, served as a Captain in the U.S. Army. He was lost on March 24, 1970, in Cambodia, and was later declared dead. His name is inscribed on Panel 12W, Line 40 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 12W · Line 40
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
- Captain (CPT)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- April 2, 1944
- Home of record
- Freeport, Illinois (Stephenson County)
Casualty
- Date of loss
- March 24, 1970
- Country
- Cambodia
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Declared Dead
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)
- First reported
- Missing in action
Context · from the records
What was happening
19 names on the Wall carry the date March 24, 1970. In March 1970, 625 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 11 of its members that month.
The record places this loss in Cambodia, outside South Vietnam.
His remains had not been recovered when the 2008 record was compiled. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency continues to search for Americans still missing from the war; families can find case information through dpaa.mil.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 12W, Line 40
- MICHAEL DAVIS ODONNELLMajor · March 24, 1970
- KENNETH RAYMOND SMITHSergeant · March 24, 1970
- ARCHIE LEON WHALERPrivate · March 24, 1970
- RONALD LEE WHITEPrivate First Class · March 24, 1970
Same unit, same day
- JOHN ARTHUR BORONSKISergeant First Class · Panel 12W, Line 37
- GARY ALAN HARNEDSergeant First Class · Panel 12W, Line 39
From Freeport
- RICHARD LEE OTTEPrivate First Class · December 15, 1966
- DONALD WAYNE KEEPCorporal · January 8, 1968
- LARRY WESLEY MACKSpecialist Five · April 20, 1968
- LOUIE JOHN SHIANNASpecialist Four · April 18, 1969
- ROBERT ALLEN BONEBRIGHTSergeant · May 18, 1969
- BARRY LEE ARMSTRONGCorporal · February 2, 1970
- DAVID RUSSEL KRUEGERCorporal · March 17, 1970
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.