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JESSE LAVERN WILLOUGHBY
Private First Class · U.S. Army
September 5, 1947 – April 10, 1968
Service recordJesse Lavern Willoughby, of St Charles, Illinois, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on April 10, 1968, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 49E, Line 17 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 49E · Line 17
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 198 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- September 5, 1947
- Home of record
- St Charles, Illinois (Multiple County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 10, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Tin
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
53 names on the Wall carry the date April 10, 1968; 12 of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 198th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 18 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 49E, Line 17
- ROBERT WARREN MADSONSpecialist Four · April 10, 1968
- TOMMY DALE WALKERSpecialist Four · April 10, 1968
- CHARLES EARL WILCOX JRSergeant First Class · April 10, 1968
- MAXIE R WILLIAMS JRFirst Lieutenant · April 10, 1968
Same unit, same day
- RAYMOND E KELLER JRPrivate First Class · Panel 49E, Line 11
- CHARLES ANTHONY MAJERSergeant · Panel 49E, Line 13
- ROBERT JOSEPH SOWINSKICorporal · Panel 49E, Line 16
From St Charles
- EVERETT ALLAN EASTMANChief Warrant Officer 3 · July 31, 1967
- THOMAS EDWARD JOSEPHCorporal · October 2, 1967
- MARK LEON TRIPLETTPrivate First Class · September 19, 1968
- STANLEY DYKUS MONTGOMERYSergeant · December 22, 1969
- PAUL ROBERT BRASSWarrant Officer 1 · December 14, 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.