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JOHN W JACOBSON SR
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
October 12, 1946 – July 30, 1968
Service recordJohn W Jacobson SR, of Crystal Falls, Michigan, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on July 30, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 50W, Line 35 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 50W · Line 35
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
- Combat Engineer (12B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- D CO 14 ENG BN 45 ENG GRP 18 ENG BDE
- Born
- October 12, 1946
- Home of record
- Crystal Falls, Michigan (Iron County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- July 30, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
21 names on the Wall carry the date July 30, 1968; he was the only one lost in Thừa Thiên Province that day. In July 1968, 993 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “D CO 14 ENG BN 45 ENG GRP 18 ENG BDE”, his unit in the record, lost 3 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 50W, Line 35
- ROBERT LINLEY GARDNERTechnical Sergeant · July 30, 1968
- PAUL JAMES GORMANPrivate First Class · July 30, 1968
- THOMAS ORTEGA JIMENEZ JRLance Corporal · July 30, 1968
- ROBERT QUINNPrivate First Class · July 30, 1968
From Crystal Falls
- RALPH ROLAND BLACKSpecialist Four · May 13, 1968
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.