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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Jimmy Edwin Flynn.

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JIMMY EDWIN FLYNN

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

October 21, 1943 – November 15, 1967

Service record

Jimmy Edwin Flynn, of Somerset, Kentucky, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on November 15, 1967, in Phuoc Long Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 29E, Line 100 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 29E · Line 100

Position of Panel 29E 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
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
25 INF DIV
Born
October 21, 1943
Home of record
Somerset, Kentucky (Pulaski County)

Casualty

Date of death
November 15, 1967
Age
24
Province
Phuoc Long
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Unknown

Context · from the records

What was happening

23 names on the Wall carry the date November 15, 1967; two of them were lost in Phuoc Long Province. In November 1967, 1,133 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 91 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 29E, Line 100

Same unit, same day

From Somerset

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.