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OMAR DAVID JONES
First Lieutenant · U.S. Army
December 22, 1943 – May 12, 1968
Service recordOmar David Jones, of Bloomington, Illinois, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on May 12, 1968, in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 59E, Line 6 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 59E · Line 6
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- First Lieutenant (1LT)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Military Intelligence Officer (9300)
- Unit (as recorded)
- AMERICAL DIV
- Born
- December 22, 1943
- Home of record
- Bloomington, Illinois (Mclean County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 12, 1968
- Age
- 24
- Province
- Quang Ngai
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Aircraft Crash — Passenger (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
97 names on the Wall carry the date May 12, 1968; eight of them were lost in Quảng Ngãi Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The Americal Division, his unit in the record, lost 19 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 59E, Line 6
- WILLIAM JACK EISENHOWERSergeant · May 12, 1968
- JERRY FLETCHERPrivate First Class · May 12, 1968
- JACK HARLAN KAMRATHPrivate First Class · May 12, 1968
- JOHN ELDEN LAIPPLESergeant · May 12, 1968
- JAMES LEE LAKESergeant · May 12, 1968
Same unit, same day
- WILLIAM E SKIVINGTON JRStaff Sergeant · Panel 59E, Line 13
From Bloomington
- GEORGE ELMER BURCHETTStaff Sergeant · September 18, 1965
- WILLIAM REINHART BUFFCorporal · August 30, 1966
- THOMAS LEO HOENIGESSergeant · June 8, 1967
- WILLIAM WALTER LITTLE IIICorporal · November 7, 1967
- DONALD EUGENE MONKMANPrivate First Class · January 7, 1968
- TIMOTHY LEE WHITESpecialist Four · February 2, 1968
- ROBERT GENE PINKSTONStaff Sergeant · March 14, 1968
- GARY CECIL BAIZEPrivate First Class · August 19, 1968
- THOMAS CARLYLE JACOBSWarrant Officer 1 · September 13, 1968
- BERNARD JAMES COOKSpecialist Four · September 17, 1968
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.