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WILLIAM THOMAS JACOBUS
Warrant Officer 1 · U.S. Army
February 24, 1946 – January 2, 1968
Service recordWilliam Thomas Jacobus, of Trenton, New Jersey, served as a Warrant Officer 1 in the U.S. Army. He died on January 2, 1968, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 33E, Line 19 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 33E · Line 19
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
- Warrant Officer 1 (WO1)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Helicopter Pilot, Utility And Light Cargo Single Rotor (062B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- C TRP 17 CAV
- Born
- February 24, 1946
- Home of record
- Trenton, New Jersey (Mercer County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 2, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
49 names on the Wall carry the date January 2, 1968; 22 of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In January 1968, 1,546 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 33E, Line 19
- WILLIAM STEVE ILLMANPrivate First Class · January 2, 1968
- DAVID LEONARD JARVISPetty Officer Third Class · January 2, 1968
- HANS KLETINGERPrivate First Class · January 2, 1968
- JEFFRY ARTHUR LARSONCorporal · January 2, 1968
From Trenton
- LEON JOSEPH KRAMERCaptain · January 31, 1963
- CARL ROBERT STEFFENPrivate First Class · December 25, 1965
- DENNIS JAMES BROPHYPrivate First Class · January 29, 1966
- JAMES EDWARD THOMPSONSergeant · February 13, 1966
- SHERMAN CHAPMAN JRSergeant First Class · June 23, 1966
- CLIFFORD RUSSELL STOUTPrivate First Class · November 21, 1966
- JOHN DONALD OSSMENPrivate First Class · February 21, 1967
- WILLIE DOWLING JRSpecialist Four · March 11, 1967
- ERWIN JOHN HAARWALDTPrivate First Class · March 20, 1967
- JOHN STEPHEN SZYMANSKIStaff Sergeant · March 23, 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.