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Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966.
Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966. Photo: SP5 Charles V. Hoover, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Jimmie Dale Still.

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JIMMIE DALE STILL

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

February 20, 1949 – January 1, 1970

Service record

Jimmie Dale Still, of Bonaparte, Iowa, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on January 1, 1970, in Phuoc Long Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 15W, Line 115 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 15W · Line 115

Position of Panel 15W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
Born
February 20, 1949
Home of record
Bonaparte, Iowa (Van Buren County)

Casualty

Date of death
January 1, 1970
Age
20
Province
Phuoc Long
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Other Accident

Context · from the records

What was happening

19 names on the Wall carry the date January 1, 1970; he was the only one lost in Phuoc Long Province that day. In January 1970, 529 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 47 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 15W, Line 115

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.