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WILLIAM BARTON JONES
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
December 24, 1947 – February 25, 1969
Service recordWilliam Barton Jones, of Oneonta, New York, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on February 25, 1969, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 31W, Line 50 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 31W · Line 50
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
- Mortarman (0341)
- Born
- December 24, 1947
- Home of record
- Oneonta, New York (Otsego County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 25, 1969
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
106 names on the Wall carry the date February 25, 1969; 60 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In February 1969, 1,304 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in Quảng Trị Province while Operation Dewey Canyon was under way. In Operation Dewey Canyon (22 January–18 March 1969) the 9th Marines struck North Vietnamese base areas in the Đa Krông and A Shau valleys, the last major Marine offensive of the war. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Read the history
Also on Panel 31W, Line 50
- STEVEN VARGAS GARCIALance Corporal · February 25, 1969
- LEMUEL ISABELLESpecialist Five · February 25, 1969
- MICHAEL LEE JENKINSPrivate First Class · February 25, 1969
- ROOSEVELT JOHNSON JRPrivate · February 25, 1969
From Oneonta
- RICHARD GLEN KOHLANDLance Corporal · November 10, 1967
- LEON ELDRED WATERS JRSpecialist Four · February 24, 1968
- ROBERT ARTHUR WIEDEMANCorporal · February 25, 1968
- ARTHUR DEWEY ELMANDORFSpecialist Four · July 10, 1968
- DONALD ANDREW RITTLINGERLance Corporal · December 22, 1968
- GEORGE F REYNOLDS JRSpecialist Four · March 29, 1969
- JAMES CHRISTOPHER WHEELERSpecialist Four · May 20, 1970
- BURDETTE D TOWNSEND JRChief Warrant Officer 2 · June 20, 1972
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.