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A 57th Medical Detachment crew loads a wounded soldier aboard a UH-1D “Dustoff” helicopter.
A 57th Medical Detachment crew loads a wounded soldier aboard a UH-1D “Dustoff” helicopter. Photo: SP4 James B. Egan, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Michael Meredith Jackson.

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MICHAEL MEREDITH JACKSON

Private First Class · U.S. Army

August 29, 1944 – March 24, 1966

Service record

Michael Meredith Jackson, of Waubay, South Dakota, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on March 24, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 6E, Line 44 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 6E · Line 44

Position of Panel 6E 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
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Medical Specialist (91B)
Unit (as recorded)
1 INF DIV
Born
August 29, 1944
Home of record
Waubay, South Dakota (Day County)

Casualty

Date of death
March 24, 1966
Age
21
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Died of Wounds
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

21 names on the Wall carry the date March 24, 1966. In March 1966, 564 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 66 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 6E, Line 44

Same unit, same day

From Waubay

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.