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A 57th Medical Detachment crew loads a wounded soldier aboard a UH-1D “Dustoff” helicopter.
A 57th Medical Detachment crew loads a wounded soldier aboard a UH-1D “Dustoff” helicopter. Photo: SP4 James B. Egan, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Joel Stevens Ivey JR.

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JOEL STEVENS IVEY JR

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

January 23, 1950 – November 28, 1971

Service record

Joel Stevens Ivey JR, of Southern Pines, North Carolina, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on November 28, 1971, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 2W, Line 76 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 2W · Line 76

Position of Panel 2W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Medical Specialist (91B)
Unit (as recorded)
101 AIRBORNE DIV
Born
January 23, 1950
Home of record
Southern Pines, North Carolina (Moore County)

Casualty

Date of death
November 28, 1971
Age
21
Province
Thua Thien
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)

Context · from the records

What was happening

35 names on the Wall carry the date November 28, 1971; 34 of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In November 1971, 109 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 47 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 2W, Line 76

Same unit, same day

From Southern Pines

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.