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RAYMOND LEE JANSENIUS
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
May 31, 1946 – October 30, 1968
Service recordRaymond Lee Jansenius, of Panama City, Florida, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on October 30, 1968, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 40W, Line 58 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 40W · Line 58
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
- Specialist Five (SP5)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 FIELD FORCE
- Born
- May 31, 1946
- Home of record
- Panama City, Florida (Bay County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 30, 1968
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Binh Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
24 names on the Wall carry the date October 30, 1968; he was the only one lost in Bình Định Province that day. In October 1968, 821 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “1 FIELD FORCE”, his unit in the record, lost 10 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 40W, Line 58
- RICHARD WAYNE HORSLEYPrivate First Class · October 30, 1968
- JAMES VAN HOWARDCorporal · October 30, 1968
- GEORGE JOHN KENDRASergeant First Class · October 30, 1968
- GARY LEE MATSONSpecialist Five · October 30, 1968
From Panama City
- ROBERT OWEN CANTRELLSpecialist Four · February 11, 1966
- ANDREW HERMAN HODGEStaff Sergeant · November 1, 1966
- LYNWOOD AUSTIN TIPTONPrivate First Class · March 6, 1967
- KENNETH ARTHUR CULLENSecond Lieutenant · April 9, 1967
- DAVID ALFRED LANDLance Corporal · June 7, 1967
- ARDENIA FREEMANPrivate First Class · November 6, 1967
- SHIRLEY WILDY JRLance Corporal · May 28, 1968
- LEROY DIGSBYCorporal · June 10, 1968
- WALTER ROY MCKEEPrivate First Class · August 31, 1968
- JERRY NIXON SCOTTStaff Sergeant · November 24, 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.