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Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966.
Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966. Photo: SP5 Charles V. Hoover, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Jimmie Ray Tice.

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JIMMIE RAY TICE

Specialist Five · U.S. Army

February 14, 1949 – February 26, 1969

Service record

Jimmie Ray Tice, of Dallas, Texas, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on February 26, 1969, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 31W, Line 74 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 31W · Line 74

Position of Panel 31W 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
Armor Crewman (11E)
Unit (as recorded)
11 ARMORED CAV
Born
February 14, 1949
Home of record
Dallas, Texas (Dallas County)

Casualty

Date of death
February 26, 1969
Age
20
Province
Binh Duong
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

61 names on the Wall carry the date February 26, 1969; three of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In February 1969, 1,304 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The unit recorded as “11 ARMORED CAV”, his unit in the record, lost 13 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 31W, Line 74

Same unit, same day

From Dallas

All 261 names from Dallas →

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.