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JIMMIE RAY ORR
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
March 10, 1946 – October 28, 1965
Service recordJimmie Ray Orr, of Miston, Tennessee, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on October 28, 1965, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 3E, Line 3 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 3E · Line 3
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)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 3 BN 9 MAR 3 MARDIV
- Born
- March 10, 1946
- Home of record
- Miston, Tennessee (Dyer County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 28, 1965
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
18 names on the Wall carry the date October 28, 1965; five of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In October 1965, 236 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “3 BN 9 MAR 3 MARDIV”, his unit in the record, lost 5 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 3E, Line 3
- ROGER MICHAEL MANNIESergeant · October 28, 1965
- HOMER DOUGLAS NELSONPrivate First Class · October 28, 1965
- THOMAS PATRICK ROWLANDLance Corporal · October 28, 1965
- CARL J SADLERPrivate First Class · October 28, 1965
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.