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LANCE NORMAN JENKINS
Lance Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps
May 14, 1949 – December 6, 1967
Service recordLance Norman Jenkins, of Vineland, New Jersey, served as a Lance Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on December 6, 1967, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 31E, Line 48 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 31E · Line 48
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Lance Corporal (LCPL)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Machinegunner (0331)
- Born
- May 14, 1949
- Home of record
- Vineland, New Jersey (Cumberland County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 6, 1967
- Age
- 18
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
70 names on the Wall carry the date December 6, 1967; six of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In December 1967, 937 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 31E, Line 48
- ERIC WAYNE JOHNSONPrivate First Class · December 6, 1967
- JOHN WALLACE JONESLance Corporal · December 6, 1967
- JEROLD LLOYD KASTRINOSSergeant · December 6, 1967
- PAUL S KRZYNOWEKFirst Lieutenant · December 6, 1967
From Vineland
- JOSEPH FRED HAYESPrivate First Class · January 7, 1967
- LOUIS JOSEPH INFERRERAPrivate First Class · May 20, 1967
- JOHN MALHON FRAMBESCorporal · June 11, 1967
- CHARLES CARL ASSELTAFirst Lieutenant · March 18, 1968
- JOHN EDWARD MOUNTLance Corporal · April 7, 1968
- BOBBY MOORERCorporal · May 15, 1968
- RICHARD WAYNE DAVISLance Corporal · January 4, 1969
- JOHN ANGELO KALIVASSergeant · June 7, 1969
- GEORGE JOHN VIEHMANN JRPrivate First Class · July 15, 1969
- LEO FRANK GREEN JRPrivate First Class · August 12, 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.