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ROY LEE JENKINS
Private First Class · U.S. Army
March 17, 1948 – August 9, 1968
Service recordRoy Lee Jenkins, of Aulander, North Carolina, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on August 9, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 49W, Line 36 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 49W · Line 36
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- March 17, 1948
- Home of record
- Aulander, North Carolina (Bertie County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 9, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
12 names on the Wall carry the date August 9, 1968; two of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In August 1968, 1,313 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 86 of its members that month.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 49W, Line 36
- TERRELL WILLIAM HALESecond Lieutenant · August 9, 1968
- VICTOR BERT MEYERSSergeant · August 9, 1968
- STATUE MOSBY JRPrivate First Class · August 9, 1968
- MICHAEL PETER BOYLEPrivate First Class · August 10, 1968
Same unit, same day
- VICTOR BERT MEYERSSergeant · Panel 49W, Line 36
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.