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JIMMIE LEE JONES
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
September 17, 1947 – March 30, 1968
Service recordJimmie Lee Jones, of Cordova, Alabama, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on March 30, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 47E, Line 12 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 47E · Line 12
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- September 17, 1947
- Home of record
- Cordova, Alabama (Walker County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 30, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
58 names on the Wall carry the date March 30, 1968; 30 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in Quảng Trị Province while the siege of Khe Sanh was under way. From 21 January 1968, North Vietnamese divisions besieged the Marine combat base at Khe Sanh and its hill outposts near the Laotian border for 77 days, while U.S. aircraft dropped some 100,000 tons of bombs around it. Operation Pegasus reached the base on 8 April. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Read the history
Also on Panel 47E, Line 12
- BARRY MALCOLM HILLSGROVEPrivate First Class · March 30, 1968
- NORMAN LOCKE HOWLETT JRLance Corporal · March 30, 1968
- ROBERT STEVENS JERNBERGSpecialist Four · March 30, 1968
- BERT AUSTIN KEELERSergeant · March 30, 1968
From Cordova
- WOODIE LEE HICKSPrivate First Class · January 25, 1966
- MELVIN LESLIE BENNETTSergeant · January 31, 1966
- JERRY WAYNE HIGGINSSpecialist Four · February 18, 1967
- LARRY PAUL BLACKPrivate First Class · December 22, 1967
- SAMUEL DAVID SMITHSergeant · May 11, 1968
- JAMES RAY MONCRIEFSpecialist Four · August 18, 1968
- ADRIAN ALAN AKINSSpecialist Five · October 25, 1969
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.