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JIMMY RAY CAIN
Petty Officer First Class · U.S. Navy
January 7, 1943 – November 6, 1969
Service recordJimmy Ray Cain, of Ft Worth, Texas, served as a Petty Officer First Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on November 6, 1969, in Chau Doc Province, South Vietnam, at age 26. His name is inscribed on Panel 16W, Line 36 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 16W · 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. Navy
- Rank
- Petty Officer First Class (PO1)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Quartermaster (QM)
- Unit (as recorded)
- USNAVFORV
- Born
- January 7, 1943
- Home of record
- Ft Worth, Texas (Tarrant County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 6, 1969
- Age
- 26
- Province
- Chau Doc
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
26 names on the Wall carry the date November 6, 1969; he was the only one lost in Chau Doc Province that day. In November 1969, 660 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “USNAVFORV”, his unit in the record, lost 5 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 16W, Line 36
- MICHAEL TOXEY RUTHERFORDPrivate First Class · November 5, 1969
- ROYAL ROY SHAFERSergeant · November 5, 1969
- CURTIS MILLER WEEKS JRSpecialist Four · November 5, 1969
- WILLIAM ALLISON ANDERSONSpecialist Four · November 6, 1969
From Ft Worth
- GEORGE MARKOSCaptain · February 7, 1965
- CHARLES M DANSBYCaptain · April 24, 1965
- JACK WILTON WEATHERBYCaptain · July 29, 1965
- PAUL WAYNE MANSIRPrivate First Class · September 11, 1965
- JAMES EDWARD THOMASPrivate First Class · October 3, 1965
- DONALD JAY TANNERLance Corporal · December 4, 1965
- DONALD REY HAWLEYCaptain · December 17, 1965
- OTHA THEANDER THOMPSONCorporal · August 24, 1965
- HARVEY WAYNE JONESPrivate First Class · March 4, 1966
- LEWIS DOUGLAS BELLMajor · March 5, 1966
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.