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JIMMY LOUIS SILER
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
March 26, 1947 – February 15, 1968
Service recordJimmy Louis Siler, of Siler City, North Carolina, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on February 15, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 39E, Line 53 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 39E · Line 53
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Mortarman (0341)
- Born
- March 26, 1947
- Home of record
- Siler City, North Carolina (Chatham County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 15, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
73 names on the Wall carry the date February 15, 1968; ten of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in Quảng Trị Province while the siege of Khe Sanh was under way. From 21 January 1968, North Vietnamese divisions besieged the Marine combat base at Khe Sanh and its hill outposts near the Laotian border for 77 days, while U.S. aircraft dropped some 100,000 tons of bombs around it. Operation Pegasus reached the base on 8 April. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Read the history
Also on Panel 39E, Line 53
- RAMON SAUL RODRIGUEZPrivate First Class · February 15, 1968
- MELVIN HILTON SANDERSPrivate First Class · February 15, 1968
- STEVAN ROY SARGENTSpecialist Four · February 15, 1968
- EURAL STANLEY JRPrivate First Class · February 15, 1968
From Siler City
- EZEKIEL PAIGESergeant · March 31, 1968
- HAROLD LEE GLOVERCorporal · November 23, 1968
- WALTER GUY WICKER JRCorporal · October 14, 1969
- HAYWOOD RODGERSSergeant · August 14, 1971
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.