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LOREN CECIL JONES
Corporal · U.S. Army
August 5, 1948 – March 19, 1969
Service recordLoren Cecil Jones, of Unaka, North Carolina, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Army. He died on March 19, 1969, in Hua Nghia Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 29W, Line 80 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 29W · Line 80
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
- Corporal (CPL)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- August 5, 1948
- Home of record
- Unaka, North Carolina (Cherokee County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 19, 1969
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Hua Nghia
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
61 names on the Wall carry the date March 19, 1969; three of them were lost in Hua Nghia Province. In March 1969, 1,553 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 121 of its members that month.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 29W, Line 80
- JESUS ENCARNACION-BETENCOURTSpecialist Four · March 19, 1969
- FLOYD MILTON KEEFEGunnery Sergeant · March 19, 1969
- EDDIE RALPH KELLEYSergeant · March 19, 1969
- BARRY LORENZ KOPPLance Corporal · March 19, 1969
Same unit, same day
- JACK LEE REXRODESpecialist Four · Panel 29W, Line 83
- RICHARD D SATTERTHWAITECorporal · Panel 29W, Line 84
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.