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Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969.
Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969. Photo: U.S. Marine Corps, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Phillip Ronald Jarrett.

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PHILLIP RONALD JARRETT

Gunnery Sergeant · U.S. Marine Corps

December 9, 1930 – February 15, 1967

Service record

Phillip Ronald Jarrett, of Jacksonville, North Carolina, served as a Gunnery Sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on February 15, 1967, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 36. His name is inscribed on Panel 15E, Line 33 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 15E · Line 33

Position of Panel 15E 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. Marine Corps
Rank
Gunnery Sergeant (GYSGT)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Engineer Equipment Chief (1349)
Born
December 9, 1930
Home of record
Jacksonville, North Carolina (Onslow County)

Casualty

Date of death
February 15, 1967
Age
36
Province
Quang Nam
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Explosive Device

Context · from the records

What was happening

36 names on the Wall carry the date February 15, 1967; three of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In February 1967, 767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 15E, Line 33

From Jacksonville

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.