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JEWEL LEE RAINWATER
Private First Class · U.S. Army
January 10, 1949 – April 2, 1968
Service recordJewel Lee Rainwater, of Van Buren, Arkansas, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on April 2, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 47E, Line 42 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 47E · Line 42
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Clerk-Typist (71B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- January 10, 1949
- Home of record
- Van Buren, Arkansas (Crawford County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 2, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
34 names on the Wall carry the date April 2, 1968; two of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 189 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 47E, Line 42
- DONALD WAYNE QUEENSpecialist Four · April 2, 1968
- ROBERT GLYNN QUICKSpecialist Four · April 2, 1968
- ROBERT HERMAN RASSELSpecialist Four · April 2, 1968
Same unit, same day
- JOE THOMAS KEMMERLINGStaff Sergeant · Panel 47E, Line 40
From Van Buren
- ARTHUR C WILLIAMS JRPetty Officer First Class · April 11, 1968
- WILLIAM HASKELL SMOCKPrivate First Class · August 30, 1968
- ALEXANDER JOHNSON JRCaptain · September 5, 1968
- JOHN CHARLES GUIREPrivate First Class · December 2, 1969
- JAMES DAVID HOUSLEYSpecialist Four · April 15, 1970
- HENRY VERNON CLOSSERPetty Officer Second Class · November 20, 1971
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.