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UH-1 helicopters of the 1st Cavalry Division skim the coastline near Chu Lai, October 1967.
UH-1 helicopters of the 1st Cavalry Division skim the coastline near Chu Lai, October 1967. Photo: PFC Franklin G. Nickerson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Mark Ardell Jenewein.

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MARK ARDELL JENEWEIN

Sergeant · U.S. Army

February 15, 1951 – February 22, 1970

Service record

Mark Ardell Jenewein, of Garden Grove, California, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on February 22, 1970, in Kien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 13W, Line 45 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 13W · Line 45

Position of Panel 13W 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
Sergeant (SGT)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Utility Helicopter Repairer (67N)
Unit (as recorded)
1 AVN BDE
Born
February 15, 1951
Home of record
Garden Grove, California (Orange County)

Casualty

Date of death
February 22, 1970
Age
19
Province
Kien Hoa
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Died of Wounds
Circumstance
Helicopter Crash — crew

Context · from the records

What was happening

25 names on the Wall carry the date February 22, 1970; he was the only one lost in Kien Hoa Province that day. In February 1970, 569 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Aviation Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 34 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 13W, Line 45

From Garden Grove

All 40 names from Garden Grove →

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.