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JESSIE MICHAEL BROOKS
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
November 12, 1950 – March 2, 1971
Service recordJessie Michael Brooks, of Irvington, Alabama, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on March 2, 1971, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 4W, Line 16 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 4W · Line 16
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
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- November 12, 1950
- Home of record
- Irvington, Alabama (Mobile County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 2, 1971
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Binh Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
11 names on the Wall carry the date March 2, 1971; four of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In March 1971, 429 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 14 of its members that month.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 4W, Line 16
- FREDERICK JOSEPH BAUMSergeant First Class · February 28, 1971
- STEVEN VINCENT ASTCorporal · March 2, 1971
- BYRON ALLEN BANGERTCorporal · March 2, 1971
- PAUL LESLIE BRADSHAWPrivate First Class · March 2, 1971
- PAUL GLEN BRIGHTSpecialist Five · March 2, 1971
Same unit, same day
- HERBERT EUGENE MULKEY JRPrivate First Class · Panel 4W, Line 17
- RICHARD DAVID SALDANASpecialist Four · Panel 4W, Line 17
- RICHARD LEE STOCKETTSergeant · Panel 4W, Line 17
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.