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JIMMY DALE BLALACK
Corporal · U.S. Army
March 19, 1946 – October 31, 1968
Service recordJimmy Dale Blalack, of Brighton, Tennessee, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Army. He died on October 31, 1968, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 40W, Line 62 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 40W · Line 62
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
- Corporal (CPL)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 198 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- March 19, 1946
- Home of record
- Brighton, Tennessee (Multiple County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 31, 1968
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Quang Tin
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
47 names on the Wall carry the date October 31, 1968; three of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In October 1968, 821 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 198th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 35 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 40W, Line 62
- LAWRENCE GILBERT BOURNESpecialist Four · October 31, 1968
- JOSEPH MICHAEL BOWMANSpecialist Four · October 31, 1968
- KENNETH WAYNE CASSELPrivate First Class · October 31, 1968
- GARRY WAYNE CATRONPrivate First Class · October 31, 1968
Same unit, same day
- DARREL EUGENE LAFEVRESergeant · Panel 40W, Line 65
From Brighton
- JOHN ALBERT HUGHLETTSergeant · November 8, 1965
- BILLY CLYDE ALSTONSpecialist Four · April 15, 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.