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JIMMY DALE WINCHESTER
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
January 17, 1940 – February 19, 1968
Service recordJimmy Dale Winchester, of White Oak Junction, Kentucky, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on February 19, 1968, in Bien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 28. His name is inscribed on Panel 40E, Line 35 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 40E · Line 35
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
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Field Radio Repairer (31E)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 LOGISTIC CMD
- Born
- January 17, 1940
- Home of record
- White Oak Junction, Kentucky (Mccreary County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 19, 1968
- Age
- 28
- Province
- Bien Hoa
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Died of other causes
Context · from the records
What was happening
93 names on the Wall carry the date February 19, 1968; he was the only one lost in Bien Hoa Province that day. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “1 LOGISTIC CMD”, his unit in the record, lost 30 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 40E, Line 35
- KEVIN EDWARD VERPAULTStaff Sergeant · February 19, 1968
- ARKIE JUNIOR WRIGHTSergeant · February 19, 1968
- JAMES ALBERT ANDERSONPrivate First Class · February 20, 1968
- MICHAEL ALLEN ANDREWSLance Corporal · February 20, 1968
Same unit, same day
- EARNEST WESLEY FOWLKEPrivate First Class · Panel 40E, Line 21
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.