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JIMMY ROGER WESTMORELAND
Private First Class · U.S. Army
September 22, 1948 – April 8, 1969
Service recordJimmy Roger Westmoreland, of Kernersville, North Carolina, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on April 8, 1969, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 27W, Line 43 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 27W · Line 43
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
- September 22, 1948
- Home of record
- Kernersville, North Carolina (Forsyth County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 8, 1969
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
41 names on the Wall carry the date April 8, 1969; four of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In April 1969, 1,023 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 83 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 27W, Line 43
- STEPHEN DAVID WILKINSONPrivate First Class · April 8, 1969
- LEON WILSONCorporal · April 8, 1969
- JAMES HENRY ADAMSPrivate First Class · April 9, 1969
- JAMES GEORGE BUNCH JRSergeant · April 9, 1969
Same unit, same day
- DENNIS LEE ROADSSpecialist Four · Panel 27W, Line 37
- TONY PALACIOSSpecialist Four · Panel 27W, Line 40
- TOWNSER STEELE JRPrivate First Class · Panel 27W, Line 41
From Kernersville
- JERRY WILLIAM MOTSINGERStaff Sergeant · June 9, 1968
- WILLIAM REYNOLDSSpecialist Four · March 15, 1969
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.