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JIMMIE EDWARD TRENT
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
October 15, 1945 – January 17, 1969
Service recordJimmie Edward Trent, of Elk City, Oklahoma, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on January 17, 1969, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 34W, Line 30 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 34W · Line 30
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
- Regular
- Occupation
- Heavy Vehicle Driver (64B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 LOGISTIC CMD
- Born
- October 15, 1945
- Home of record
- Elk City, Oklahoma (Beckham County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 17, 1969
- Age
- 23
- Province
- Binh Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Died of other causes
Context · from the records
What was happening
56 names on the Wall carry the date January 17, 1969; three of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In January 1969, 985 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “1 LOGISTIC CMD”, his unit in the record, lost 11 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 34W, Line 30
- JOHN HERBERT WEAVERCommander · January 17, 1969
- PAUL JOSIAH WILSONFirst Lieutenant · January 17, 1969
- JEREMY ROBERT WOJTKIEWICZFirst Lieutenant · January 17, 1969
- JOHN REX BARTLETTSergeant · January 18, 1969
Same unit, same day
- CLARENCE EDWARD ELLISPrivate First Class · Panel 34W, Line 22
From Elk City
- CARL ROBERT MILLERLance Corporal · July 28, 1968
- ROBERT CARROL WRIGHTSecond Lieutenant · January 2, 1970
- ROBERT FRANKLIN WILCOXSONFirst Lieutenant · May 25, 1972
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.