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JIMMY GRANT FREEMAN
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
October 12, 1941 – March 24, 1969
Service recordJimmy Grant Freeman, of Talladega, Alabama, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on March 24, 1969, in Kien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 27. His name is inscribed on Panel 28W, Line 25 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 28W · Line 25
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
- Sergeant First Class (SFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- MACV ADVISORS
- Born
- October 12, 1941
- Home of record
- Talladega, Alabama (Talladega County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 24, 1969
- Age
- 27
- Province
- Kien Hoa
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
45 names on the Wall carry the date March 24, 1969; he was the only one lost in Kien Hoa Province that day. In March 1969, 1,553 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 20 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 28W, Line 25
- GERASIMO ARROYO-BAEZSergeant First Class · March 24, 1969
- RAYMOND FREDRICK EADESergeant · March 24, 1969
- TOM EMERSONFirst Lieutenant · March 24, 1969
- PHILLIP HARRY FLEMINGSpecialist Four · March 24, 1969
Same unit, same day
- DARRELL EUGENE ANDERSONStaff Sergeant · Panel 28W, Line 23
- RICHARD LEE BOWERSMajor · Panel 28W, Line 23
- GERASIMO ARROYO-BAEZSergeant First Class · Panel 28W, Line 25
From Talladega
- WALTER ANTHONY THACKERSON JRPrivate First Class · May 21, 1966
- CHARLES EDWARD HEATHSpecialist Four · August 22, 1966
- JAMES PATRICK NAILENPrivate First Class · March 19, 1967
- WILLIAM MARSHALL SHAW JRLance Corporal · May 8, 1967
- EDDIE LEE MOTON JRPrivate First Class · June 19, 1967
- LOUGHTON SMITHMaster Sergeant · July 20, 1967
- EARNEST PAUL HOLMES JRPrivate First Class · February 15, 1968
- WILLIE GENE WILSONSergeant · April 9, 1968
- HUGH BERNARD BROWN IIIFirst Lieutenant · July 20, 1968
- LEONARD HUGH HOLMESPrivate First Class · February 3, 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.