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MERLE ELDON JONES
Second Lieutenant · U.S. Army
May 23, 1942 – March 27, 1966
Service recordMerle Eldon Jones, of Lincoln, Kansas, served as a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on March 27, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 6E, Line 53 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 6E · Line 53
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Second Lieutenant (2LT)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Born
- May 23, 1942
- Home of record
- Lincoln, Kansas (Lincoln County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 27, 1966
- Age
- 23
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
15 names on the Wall carry the date March 27, 1966. In March 1966, 564 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 6E, Line 53
- DAVID COLVINLance Corporal · March 27, 1966
- RICHARD FRANCIS GRAHAMPrivate First Class · March 27, 1966
- RONALD WEAVER JONESPrivate First Class · March 27, 1966
- ELWIN CLAUDE WISEPrivate First Class · March 27, 1966
From Lincoln
- LANNIE RAY ANDERSONPrivate First Class · February 11, 1970
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.