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A 57th Medical Detachment crew loads a wounded soldier aboard a UH-1D “Dustoff” helicopter.
A 57th Medical Detachment crew loads a wounded soldier aboard a UH-1D “Dustoff” helicopter. Photo: SP4 James B. Egan, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Jimmie L Scott.

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JIMMIE L SCOTT

Specialist Five · U.S. Army

May 10, 1940 – June 1, 1966

Service record

Jimmie L Scott, of Montgomery, Alabama, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on June 1, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 26. His name is inscribed on Panel 7E, Line 132 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 7E · Line 132

Position of Panel 7E 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 Five (SP5)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Medical Specialist (91B)
Unit (as recorded)
25 INF DIV
Born
May 10, 1940
Home of record
Montgomery, Alabama (Montgomery County)

Casualty

Date of death
June 1, 1966
Age
26
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Died of Wounds
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

Ten names on the Wall carry the date June 1, 1966. In June 1966, 595 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 73 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 7E, Line 132

From Montgomery

All 50 names from Montgomery →

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.