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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 Thomas Murl Jaggers.

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THOMAS MURL JAGGERS

Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps

August 12, 1946 – May 4, 1967

Service record

Thomas Murl Jaggers, of Greenville, Mississippi, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on May 4, 1967, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 19E, Line 37 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 19E · Line 37

Position of Panel 19E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Marine Corps
Rank
Corporal (CPL)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Machinegunner (0331)
Born
August 12, 1946
Home of record
Greenville, Mississippi (Washington County)

Casualty

Date of death
May 4, 1967
Age
20
Province
Quang Tri
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Artillery/Mortar/Rocket

Context · from the records

What was happening

38 names on the Wall carry the date May 4, 1967; six of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In May 1967, 1,396 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 19E, Line 37

From Greenville

All 21 names from Greenville →

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.