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JIM LAMARR AILSTOCK JR
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
December 26, 1947 – March 26, 1968
Service recordJim Lamarr Ailstock JR, of Longview, Texas, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on March 26, 1968, in Vinh Long Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 46E, Line 26 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 46E · Line 26
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Construction Equipment Repairer (62B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- ENGINEERING CMD
- Born
- December 26, 1947
- Home of record
- Longview, Texas (Gregg County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 26, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Vinh Long
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
87 names on the Wall carry the date March 26, 1968; he was the only one lost in Vinh Long Province that day. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “ENGINEERING CMD”, his unit in the record, lost 15 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 46E, Line 26
- GARY RAY WIGINTONPrivate First Class · March 25, 1968
- LARRY E WORKMANSpecialist Four · March 25, 1968
- LONNIE DOUGLAS ALLEYSpecialist Four · March 26, 1968
- FRANKIE EUGENE ALLGOODLieutenant Colonel · March 26, 1968
From Longview
- NORMAN RAY GARRETTPrivate · February 15, 1965
- WILLIAM BUCKELE NORTHCUTTPrivate First Class · August 23, 1966
- JAMES LEE WATKINSLance Corporal · January 28, 1967
- GARLAND PAUL LITTLEPrivate First Class · September 4, 1967
- JOHN WAYNE CAVERSergeant · October 31, 1967
- RICHARD ALTON HOLLOWAYSpecialist Four · December 2, 1967
- BOBBY LYNN WEATHERSLance Corporal · March 17, 1968
- RAYMOND RICHARD GILLOCKSpecialist Five · March 28, 1968
- JAMES DAVIS MOLPUSFirst Lieutenant · May 2, 1968
- THOMAS CLEO FYFFEPrivate First Class · July 24, 1968
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.