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JIMMIE LEON PLATO
Hospitalman · U.S. Navy
February 12, 1947 – November 15, 1966
Service recordJimmie Leon Plato, of Hobbs, New Mexico, served as a Hospitalman in the U.S. Navy. He died on November 15, 1966, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 12E, Line 75 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 12E · Line 75
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. Navy
- Rank
- Hospitalman (HN)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Hospital Corpsman (HM)
- Born
- February 12, 1947
- Home of record
- Hobbs, New Mexico (Lea County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 15, 1966
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
30 names on the Wall carry the date November 15, 1966; ten of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In November 1966, 641 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 12E, Line 75
- EDWARD ARTHUR MCWRIGHTPrivate First Class · November 15, 1966
- CHARLES G OBERLESpecialist Five · November 15, 1966
- FRED MELVIN PENNINGTONSpecialist Four · November 15, 1966
- EDDIE DONALD PEOPLESPrivate First Class · November 15, 1966
From Hobbs
- RONNIE LEE NOSEFFCorporal · September 25, 1966
- HOWARD JACOB RICECorporal · June 8, 1967
- STANLEY W MCPHERSONSpecialist Four · September 19, 1967
- CHARLES LEE GASSLance Corporal · October 18, 1967
- JERRY MARCO ROBERTSSpecialist Four · December 11, 1967
- LEONARD ERWIN CRUCEPrivate First Class · June 6, 1968
- CHARLES DANIEL FOLEYCaptain · May 23, 1970
- JAIME PACHECOSpecialist Four · 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.