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VINCENT EARL JENKINS
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
October 17, 1947 – May 13, 1968
Service recordVincent Earl Jenkins, of Portsmouth, Virginia, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on May 13, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 59E, Line 24 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 59E · Line 24
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- October 17, 1947
- Home of record
- Portsmouth, Virginia (Portsmouth (City) County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 13, 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
101 names on the Wall carry the date May 13, 1968; 11 of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 59E, Line 24
- ABRAHAM JACKSONSpecialist Four · May 13, 1968
- BOBBY JAMESSergeant · May 13, 1968
- FREDDIE LEE JONESPrivate First Class · May 13, 1968
- PAUL RODRIGUEZ LOZANOSpecialist Four · May 13, 1968
From Portsmouth
- NORMAN ELLIOTT JRSpecialist Four · February 20, 1965
- RICHARD DALE BRODAPrivate First Class · November 20, 1965
- JESSE THOMAS BAILEY JRSergeant · February 2, 1966
- THOMAS HENRY RHODESPrivate First Class · February 12, 1966
- DONALD CHANDLER PIPERPrivate First Class · February 24, 1966
- MILTON LEE VAUGHANPrivate First Class · August 27, 1966
- WALTER WILLIAMS JRSergeant · September 25, 1966
- MELVIN LEON SHERRELLSpecialist Four · December 13, 1966
- FRANK EARLE HARDYLance Corporal · May 29, 1967
- FRED ALLAN KELLEYSpecialist Four · July 10, 1967
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.