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JIMMY MICHAEL TROLLINGER
Private First Class · U.S. Army
August 20, 1947 – February 27, 1968
Service recordJimmy Michael Trollinger, of Port Lavaca, Texas, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on February 27, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 41E, Line 56 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 41E · Line 56
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
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- August 20, 1947
- Home of record
- Port Lavaca, Texas (Calhoun County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 27, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
56 names on the Wall carry the date February 27, 1968; seven of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 144 of its members that month.
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 41E, Line 56
- JOSE RAFAEL TAVAREZSergeant · February 27, 1968
- ANTHONY NICHOLAS VALENTEGunnery Sergeant · February 27, 1968
- VERNON LEWIS WALKERSergeant First Class · February 27, 1968
- JEIDER JACKSON WARRENPetty Officer First Class · February 27, 1968
Same unit, same day
- THOMAS CLAY WRIGHTSpecialist Five · Panel 41E, Line 57
From Port Lavaca
- RICHARD KNAPPLance Corporal · June 7, 1967
- JESSIE CHARLES ALBASergeant · May 25, 1968
- ROBERT MASEDAPrivate First Class · July 30, 1970
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.