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JESSIE EARL HARRIS
Private First Class · U.S. Army
January 12, 1946 – January 31, 1968
Service recordJessie Earl Harris, of Peoria, Illinois, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on January 31, 1968, in Gia Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 36E, Line 13 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 36E · Line 13
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Military Police (95B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- US ARMY REP OF VIETNAM
- Born
- January 12, 1946
- Home of record
- Peoria, Illinois (Peoria County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 31, 1968
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Gia Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
246 names on the Wall carry the date January 31, 1968; 66 of them were lost in Gia Dinh Province. In January 1968, 1,546 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “US ARMY REP OF VIETNAM”, his unit in the record, lost 7 of its members that month.
He died in Gia Dinh Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Also on Panel 36E, Line 13
- HENRY WILBURN HARTMANSpecialist Five · January 31, 1968
- FRED KAWAILANI MAS HATADASpecialist Four · January 31, 1968
- JAMES MICHAEL HAUCKLance Corporal · January 31, 1968
- CHARLES EDWARD HEBRONSergeant · January 31, 1968
Same unit, same day
- DANNY LEWIS LASUREPrivate First Class · Panel 36E, Line 21
- HARRY F RICHARDSON JRPrivate First Class · Panel 36E, Line 32
From Peoria
- GARY PAUL BLANDLance Corporal · September 22, 1965
- JAMES RICHARD DISCHERTLance Corporal · October 11, 1965
- ANTHONY EUGENE PENDOLAPrivate First Class · November 6, 1965
- DANIEL JAMES SOBOTAPrivate First Class · November 8, 1965
- JOSEPH MYRON WORKMANPrivate First Class · November 17, 1965
- KIRK IRWIN RILEYCaptain · December 3, 1965
- JOHN HENRY BELLPrivate First Class · March 5, 1966
- JERRY JACK JOHNSONSecond Lieutenant · June 23, 1966
- HAROLD JOSEPH ALWANLieutenant Colonel · February 27, 1967
- HAROLD EDWARD NULLSpecialist Four · March 24, 1967
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.