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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Jessie James Tyler.

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JESSIE JAMES TYLER

Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army

December 25, 1931 – August 8, 1969

Service record

Jessie James Tyler, of Neeses, South Carolina, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on August 8, 1969, in Ninh Thuan Province, South Vietnam, at age 37. His name is inscribed on Panel 20W, Line 116 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 20W · Line 116

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Staff Sergeant (SSG)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Construction Equipment Supervisor (62N)
Unit (as recorded)
589 ENG BN 35 ENG GRP 18 ENG BDE
Born
December 25, 1931
Home of record
Neeses, South Carolina (Orangeburg County)

Casualty

Date of death
August 8, 1969
Age
37
Province
Ninh Thuan
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Artillery/Mortar/Rocket

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27 names on the Wall carry the date August 8, 1969; two of them were lost in Ninh Thuan Province. In August 1969, 962 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

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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.