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An AC-47D “Spooky” gunship fires on a target at night over South Vietnam.
An AC-47D “Spooky” gunship fires on a target at night over South Vietnam. Photo: U.S. Air Force, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Jesse Lyle Waltman.

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JESSE LYLE WALTMAN

Technical Sergeant · U.S. Air Force

July 19, 1925 – November 26, 1966

Service record

Jesse Lyle Waltman, of Dixon, California, served as a Technical Sergeant in the U.S. Air Force. He died on November 26, 1966, in Gia Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 41. His name is inscribed on Panel 12E, Line 121 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 12E · Line 121

Position of Panel 12E 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. Air Force
Rank
Technical Sergeant (TSGT)
Service
Regular
Born
July 19, 1925
Home of record
Dixon, California (Solano County)

Casualty

Date of death
November 26, 1966
Age
41
Province
Gia Dinh
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Aircraft Crash — Passenger (MC)

Context · from the records

What was happening

36 names on the Wall carry the date November 26, 1966; 24 of them were lost in Gia Dinh Province. In November 1966, 641 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 12E, Line 121

From Dixon

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.