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JIMMY DARRELL COURTNEY
Private First Class · U.S. Army
May 3, 1950 – July 25, 1969
Service recordJimmy Darrell Courtney, of Morristown, Tennessee, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on July 25, 1969, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 20W, Line 43 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 20W · Line 43
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- May 3, 1950
- Home of record
- Morristown, Tennessee (Hamblen County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- July 25, 1969
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
19 names on the Wall carry the date July 25, 1969; two of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In July 1969, 834 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 101 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 20W, Line 43
- JOSE ALEJANDRO DELGADOCaptain · July 25, 1969
- GERALD EUGENE DUBEAUSergeant · July 25, 1969
- JAY LEROY EVERETTSergeant First Class · July 25, 1969
- JOHN B GAINGERSpecialist Four · July 25, 1969
Same unit, same day
- JOHN EDWARD KELLY JRCaptain · Panel 20W, Line 44
From Morristown
- ARTHUR WAYNE GLOVERSpecialist Four · February 9, 1964
- BOBBY JOE QUINNPrivate First Class · January 9, 1967
- ROY EDWARD SOUTHERLANDFirst Lieutenant · December 15, 1967
- WILLIAM BLAIR REAMS JRMajor · November 11, 1968
- CHESTER ANDREW MOLLEYSecond Lieutenant · April 23, 1969
- GEORGE MICHAEL COUCHLance Corporal · September 10, 1973
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.