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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 Jimmy Darrel Humphres.

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JIMMY DARREL HUMPHRES

Corporal · U.S. Army

March 6, 1947 – May 24, 1971

Service record

Jimmy Darrel Humphres, of Tremont, Mississippi, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Army. He died on May 24, 1971, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 3W, Line 53 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 3W · Line 53

Position of Panel 3W 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
Corporal (CPL)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
196 LIGHT INF BDE
Born
March 6, 1947
Home of record
Tremont, Mississippi (Itawamba County)

Casualty

Date of death
May 24, 1971
Age
24
Province
Quang Nam
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Explosive Device

Context · from the records

What was happening

Six names on the Wall carry the date May 24, 1971; two of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In May 1971, 202 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 196th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 10 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 3W, Line 53

Same unit, same day

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.