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JIMMY EDD ABERNATHY
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
March 20, 1947 – February 2, 1969
Service recordJimmy Edd Abernathy, of Sherrills Ford, North Carolina, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on February 2, 1969, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 33W, Line 35 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 33W · 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
- Specialist Five (SP5)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Chaplain Assistant (71M)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 11 ARMORED CAV
- Born
- March 20, 1947
- Home of record
- Sherrills Ford, North Carolina (Catawba County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 2, 1969
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Binh Duong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
52 names on the Wall carry the date February 2, 1969; 18 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.
Read the history
Also on Panel 33W, Line 35
- HENRY GERARD SCHULTECorporal · February 1, 1969
- JAMES EDWARD TAYLORFirst Lieutenant · February 1, 1969
- JAMES HOWARD WARDSpecialist Five · February 1, 1969
- JAMES LEROY WOODWORTHCorporal · February 1, 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.