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A 5th Special Forces Group sergeant teaches Civilian Irregular Defense Group trainees, March 1967.
A 5th Special Forces Group sergeant teaches Civilian Irregular Defense Group trainees, March 1967. Photo: SP5 Robert C. Lafoon, DASPO, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Jonathan P Works.

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JONATHAN P WORKS

First Lieutenant · U.S. Army

January 8, 1943 – January 28, 1966

Service record

Jonathan P Works, of Greenwich, Connecticut, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on January 28, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 4E, Line 105 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 4E · Line 105

Position of Panel 4E 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
First Lieutenant (1LT)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Unit (as recorded)
SPECIAL FORCES
Born
January 8, 1943
Home of record
Greenwich, Connecticut (Fairfield County)

Casualty

Date of death
January 28, 1966
Age
23
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Other Accident

Context · from the records

What was happening

17 names on the Wall carry the date January 28, 1966. In January 1966, 401 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 12 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 4E, Line 105

Same unit, same day

From Greenwich

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.