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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Raymond Lee Jarvi.

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RAYMOND LEE JARVI

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

September 5, 1945 – November 9, 1967

Service record

Raymond Lee Jarvi, of Embarrass, Minnesota, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on November 9, 1967, in Dinh Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 29E, Line 59 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 29E · Line 59

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Field Illumination Crewman (17E)
Unit (as recorded)
H BTRY 29 ARTY
Born
September 5, 1945
Home of record
Embarrass, Minnesota (St Louis County)

Casualty

Date of death
November 9, 1967
Age
22
Province
Dinh Tuong
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Died of Wounds
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

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46 names on the Wall carry the date November 9, 1967; he was the only one lost in Định Tường Province that day. In November 1967, 1,133 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

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Also on Panel 29E, Line 59

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.