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B-52Ds take off from U-Tapao, Thailand, during Linebacker II, December 1972.
B-52Ds take off from U-Tapao, Thailand, during Linebacker II, December 1972. Photo: U.S. Air Force, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Nutter Jerome Wimbrow III.

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NUTTER JEROME WIMBROW III

Major · U.S. Air Force

March 12, 1939 – December 26, 1972

Service record

Nutter Jerome Wimbrow III, of Whaleysville, Maryland, served as a Major in the U.S. Air Force. He died on December 26, 1972, in North Vietnam, at age 33. His name is inscribed on Panel 1W, Line 105 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 1W · Line 105

Position of Panel 1W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Air Force
Rank
Major (MAJ)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Electronic Warfare Officer (1575Z)
Born
March 12, 1939
Home of record
Whaleysville, Maryland (Worcester County)

Casualty

Date of death
December 26, 1972
Age
33
Country
North Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Unknown

Context · from the records

What was happening

Two names on the Wall carry the date December 26, 1972. In December 1972, 75 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

He died in North Vietnam while Linebacker II was under way. In Linebacker II (18–29 December 1972), B-52s and fighter-bombers struck Hanoi and Haiphong for eleven days; fifteen B-52s were lost to SA-2 missiles before North Vietnam returned to the Paris talks.

Also on Panel 1W, Line 105

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.