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JESSE L BRANDON
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
August 24, 1946 – March 1, 1967
Service recordJesse L Brandon, of Oxford, North Carolina, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on March 1, 1967, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 15E, Line 125 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 15E · Line 125
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 11 ARMORED CAV
- Born
- August 24, 1946
- Home of record
- Oxford, North Carolina (Granville County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 1, 1967
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
32 names on the Wall carry the date March 1, 1967; five of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In March 1967, 1,091 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “11 ARMORED CAV”, his unit in the record, lost 13 of its members that month.
He died in Tây Ninh Province while Operation Junction City was under way. Operation Junction City (22 February–14 May 1967), in War Zone C along the Cambodian border, was the largest U.S. operation of the war to that time and included the only major American combat parachute assault of the war. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 15E, Line 125
- DONALD WARREN BOLLMANCorporal · March 1, 1967
- DALE VINCENT BREMERMAN JRPrivate First Class · March 1, 1967
- GARY LEE BRUSKECorporal · March 1, 1967
- WILLIAM BURTON JRSergeant · March 1, 1967
Same unit, same day
- GEORGE DALE ARNOLDStaff Sergeant · Panel 15E, Line 124
- THOMAS J EVANS JRWarrant Officer 1 · Panel 15E, Line 127
From Oxford
- LEON THORNTONSergeant · May 18, 1967
- HUBERT ROYSTER JRSpecialist Four · January 7, 1968
- NORMAN EARL ROSE IIICorporal · February 7, 1968
- LONEY EVANS JRCorporal · October 5, 1968
- MELVIN GREEN JRSergeant First Class · May 12, 1969
- WILLIAM GARY NELMS JRPrivate First Class · August 29, 1969
- AMBROSE H BROOKS JRSpecialist Four · September 8, 1969
- EUGENE PAUL GEEStaff Sergeant · April 5, 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.