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JIMMY REA BURK
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
January 12, 1948 – November 30, 1969
Service recordJimmy Rea Burk, of Littlefield, Texas, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on November 30, 1969, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 15W, Line 9 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 15W · Line 9
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
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantry Operations And Intelligence Specialist (11F)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 5 INF DIV MECH
- Born
- January 12, 1948
- Home of record
- Littlefield, Texas (Lamb County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 30, 1969
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
15 names on the Wall carry the date November 30, 1969; four of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In November 1969, 660 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “5 INF DIV MECH”, his unit in the record, lost 27 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 15W, Line 9
- JOHN AUSTIN BOSSOMCorporal · November 30, 1969
- DONALD ALLEN R DEMONDPrivate First Class · November 30, 1969
- TOM HABADASpecialist Four · November 30, 1969
- RUSSELL JONES JRSpecialist Four · November 30, 1969
Same unit, same day
- DAVID LEONARD NICHOLSONPrivate First Class · Panel 15W, Line 10
- ROBERT EUGENE VANDERGRIFFSergeant · Panel 15W, Line 11
From Littlefield
- MILBURN HINES STARNESSergeant · November 3, 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.