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VERNELL JENKINS
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
June 5, 1944 – September 21, 1966
Service recordVernell Jenkins, of Powderly, Texas, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on September 21, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 10E, Line 128 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 10E · Line 128
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Medical Specialist (91B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 4 INF DIV
- Born
- June 5, 1944
- Home of record
- Powderly, Texas (Lamar County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 21, 1966
- Age
- 22
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
22 names on the Wall carry the date September 21, 1966. In September 1966, 533 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 4th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 12 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 10E, Line 128
- TERRY LEE BARCUSPrivate First Class · September 18, 1966
- LOUIS CLARK HINESSergeant · September 21, 1966
- NORMAN LEE ROY HOYTPrivate First Class · September 21, 1966
- ROBERT LEE HYDEPrivate · September 21, 1966
- ROBERT BUFORD JACKSONStaff Sergeant · September 21, 1966
Same unit, same day
- ROBERT LEE HYDEPrivate · Panel 10E, Line 128
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.