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WILLIAM ROBERT JENNETT
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
November 16, 1946 – April 26, 1968
Service recordWilliam Robert Jennett, of Lafayette, Indiana, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on April 26, 1968, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 52E, Line 20 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 52E · Line 20
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
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- November 16, 1946
- Home of record
- Lafayette, Indiana (Tippecanoe County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 26, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
69 names on the Wall carry the date April 26, 1968; three of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 110 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 52E, Line 20
- KENNETH LEE JOHNSONAirman First Class · April 26, 1968
- TERRY JOE KENNEYSpecialist Four · April 26, 1968
- MARC JOHN KUZMAPrivate First Class · April 26, 1968
- ROY ALLEN LAMONSergeant · April 26, 1968
From Lafayette
- ROBERT LEE MANNCaptain · October 22, 1965
- JAMES DARRYL BASHAMPrivate First Class · September 7, 1966
- CHARLES ALLEN KNOCHELLieutenant · September 22, 1966
- ROBERT JOE HARDESTYSpecialist Four · December 27, 1966
- DAVID LEROY HOWARDPrivate First Class · September 14, 1967
- THOMAS HAROLD NERINIPrivate First Class · May 27, 1968
- RANDELL HOOD LOYSpecialist Four · September 4, 1968
- STEVEN RANDALL BROOKSLance Corporal · September 13, 1968
- DOYLE EUGENE SALLEECorporal · November 12, 1968
- DENNIS WRAY CRIPELance Corporal · February 20, 1969
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.