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JESSE RUTLEDGE BAKER
Second Lieutenant · U.S. Marine Corps
October 24, 1943 – August 18, 1967
Service recordJesse Rutledge Baker, of Whitmire, South Carolina, served as a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on August 18, 1967, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 25E, Line 10 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 25E · Line 10
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Second Lieutenant (2NDLT)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Basic Engineer, Construction, And Equipment Off (I) (1301)
- Unit (as recorded)
- B CO 7 ENGINEERS
- Born
- October 24, 1943
- Home of record
- Whitmire, South Carolina (Newberry County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 18, 1967
- Age
- 23
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
23 names on the Wall carry the date August 18, 1967; two of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In August 1967, 683 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “B CO 7 ENGINEERS”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 25E, Line 10
- JOHN WAYNE BADONPrivate First Class · August 18, 1967
- HAROLD BRUCE BARTONPrivate First Class · August 18, 1967
- WILLIAM JOHN BRYANTSpecialist Four · August 18, 1967
- MARVIN DOUGLAS BUCKRIDGESpecialist Four · August 18, 1967
From Whitmire
- LEONDA SARTORPrivate First Class · November 16, 1968
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.