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JESSE WILLARD MONTAGUE JR
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
May 6, 1947 – February 13, 1972
Service recordJesse Willard Montague JR, of Society Hill, South Carolina, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on February 13, 1972, offshore, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 2W, Line 106 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 2W · Line 106
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
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Unit Supply Specialist (76Y)
- Unit (as recorded)
- MACV ADVISORS
- Born
- May 6, 1947
- Home of record
- Society Hill, South Carolina (Darlington County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 13, 1972
- Age
- 24
- Province
- Offshore
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
Seven names on the Wall carry the date February 13, 1972. In February 1972, 46 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 4 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 2W, Line 106
- JAMES WESLEY KIEHNESergeant · February 13, 1972
- ROBERT MURRAY LAIRDSergeant · February 13, 1972
- LUTHER MCKIND LASATER IIICaptain · February 13, 1972
- CHRISTOPHER RICHARD SEITZSpecialist Five · February 13, 1972
Same unit, same day
- ROBERT MURRAY LAIRDSergeant · Panel 2W, Line 106
From Society Hill
- JAMES MATTHEW BISHOPLance Corporal · May 10, 1967
- LEVERN COSOMPrivate First Class · April 3, 1968
- ERNEST CLARENCE HOWLECorporal · February 25, 1969
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.