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JIMMY RANDLE YOUNG
Private First Class · U.S. Army
April 4, 1948 – March 19, 1968
Service recordJimmy Randle Young, of Oil Trough, Arkansas, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on March 19, 1968, in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 45E, Line 36 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 45E · Line 36
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
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 INF DIV
- Born
- April 4, 1948
- Home of record
- Oil Trough, Arkansas (Independence County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 19, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Ngai
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
19 names on the Wall carry the date March 19, 1968; two of them were lost in Quảng Ngãi Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 47 of its members that month.
He died in Quảng Ngãi Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Also on Panel 45E, Line 36
- HAROLD SHELBY WOOD JRSpecialist Five · March 19, 1968
- JEFFREY J YARGERWarrant Officer 1 · March 19, 1968
- DOUGLAS LEE ZELLERSpecialist Four · March 19, 1968
- JAMES ROBERT ADAMSSecond Lieutenant · March 20, 1968
Same unit, same day
- SAM ZEB HUGHESPrivate First Class · Panel 45E, Line 34
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.