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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault.
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Jimmie Lue McMorris.

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JIMMIE LUE MCMORRIS

Private First Class · U.S. Army

September 12, 1944 – November 15, 1967

Service record

Jimmie Lue McMorris, of Norristown, Pennsylvania, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on November 15, 1967, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 29E, Line 101 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 29E · Line 101

Position of Panel 29E 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
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Tactical Wire Operations Specialist (36K)
Unit (as recorded)
25 INF DIV
Born
September 12, 1944
Home of record
Norristown, Pennsylvania (Montgomery County)

Casualty

Date of death
November 15, 1967
Age
23
Province
Binh Duong
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Artillery/Mortar/Rocket

Context · from the records

What was happening

23 names on the Wall carry the date November 15, 1967; three of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In November 1967, 1,133 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 91 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 29E, Line 101

Same unit, same day

From Norristown

All 22 names from Norristown →

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.