Person:Jasper Alexander (2)

Content Source:Fold3 Publication Title: Vietnam Veterans Memorial
Short Description: Every-name searchable image of The Vietnam Veterans Memorial, the "Wall," in Washington, DC.
Sheet Number: 1
Full Name: Alexander, Jasper Marion
Rank: Staff Sergeant
Grade: E6
Specialty: Armor Intelligence Specialist (ARMY)
Residence: Dayton, OH
Race: Caucasian
Religion: Protestant - No Denominational Preference
Marital Status: Single
Gender: Male
Date Of Birth: 28 Dec 1929
Tour Start Date: 4 Oct 1967
Casualty Date: Not available
Death Date: 3 Mar 1969
Age: 39
Casualty Type: Non-Hostile, Died of Illness/Injury
Died Of: Drowning, Suffocation
Ground Air Sea: Ground Casualty
Body Recovery: Recovered
Place: Binh Duong, South Vietnam
Casualty Location: Not available
Service: Army
Enlistment Type: Regular
Years Served: 20
Major Command: 1st Inf Div
Company: D Co
Battalion: 1st Bn
Regiment: 16th Infantry
Panel: 30W
Line: 17
Conflict Period: Vietnam War
Served For: United States of America

Eureka, Illinois
p1 Jasper Alexander died in Vietnam
p4 Next-of-kin are Mr. and Mrs. Joe Alexander, brother & sister-in-law, of Bellbrook, Ohio.

Xenia, Greene, Ohio
****PROBABLY has photograph from newspapers.com preview screen****
J. M. Alexander serviceman

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Jasper Alexander
Birth Date:
28 Dec 1929
Death Date:
Mar 1969
Social Security Number:
***-**-4725
PUBLICATION INFO
Publication Title:
Social Security Death Index (Text only collection)
Content Source:
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Last Updated:
July 28, 2017
Description:
The SSDI (Social Security Death Index) is a database of deceased individuals with social security numbers, and whose deaths were reported to the SSA.

Kentucky, Birth Index, 1911-1999
Name: Jasper M Alexander
Date of Birth: 28 Dec 1929
Birth Place: Madison, Kentucky, USA
Mother's name: Clara Schwartz
Volume Number: 205
Certificate Number: 93715
Volume Year: 1961
Source Information
Ancestry.com. Kentucky, Birth Index, 1911-1999 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc., 2006.

Original data: Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives. Kentucky Birth, Marriage, and Death Databases: Births 1911-1999. Frankfort, Kentucky: Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives.

SSGT Jasper Marion Alexander
Birth: 28 Dec 1929
Death: 3 Mar 1969 (aged 39)
Burial: Rosewood Cemetery, Bloomington, McLean County, Illinois, USA
Memorial #: 25970971
Family Members
Parents
Thomas M. Alexander 1884-1958
Clara A. Alexander 1894-1964
Siblings
Mary Frances Alexander Reynolds 1919-1986
Richard N. Alexander 1932-1938
Created by: Tony Cannon (46527423)
Added: 13 Apr 2008
URL: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/25970971
Citation: Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 24 October 2018), memorial page for SSGT Jasper Marion Alexander (28 Dec 1929–3 Mar 1969), Find A Grave Memorial no. 25970971, citing Rosewood Cemetery, Bloomington, McLean County, Illinois, USA ; Maintained by Tony Cannon (contributor 46527423) .
INCLUDES NEWSPRINT PHOTOGRAPH OF THE INDIVIDUAL AND PHOTOGRAPH OF TOMBSTONE

Buried next to parents and brother who died before he did.

1940 United States Federal Census
Name: Jasper Alexander
Age: 10
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1930
Gender: Male
Race: White
Birthplace: Kentucky
Marital Status: Single
Relation to Head of House: Son
Home in 1940: Dry Grove, McLean, Illinois
Map of Home in 1940: View Map
Inferred Residence in 1935: Danvers, McLean, Illinois
Residence in 1935: Danvers, McLean, Illinois
Resident on farm in 1935: No
Sheet Number: 9A
Attended School or College: Yes
Highest Grade Completed: Elementary school, 4th grade
Neighbors: View others on page
Household Members:
Name Age
Thomas Alexander 55
Clara Alexander 45
Kenney Alexander 21
Fred Alexander 17
Eva Alexander 16
Milton Alexander 14
Nanny Alexander 12
Jasper Alexander 10
Harriet Alexander 6

Alabama, County Marriage Records, 1805-1967
Name: Jasper M Alexander
Gender: Male
Age: 21
Birth Date: abt 1929
Marriage Date: 1 Jul 1950
Marriage Place: Russell, Alabama, USA
Father: Thomas M Alexander
Mother: Clara A Swarty
Spouse: Ramona Joy Huling
Film Number: 001846336

U.S., Army Personnel and Dependent Casualties, 1961-1981 No Image
Name: Jasper M Alexander
Birth Date: 1929
Gender: Male
Race: Caucasian (White)
Home State: North Dakota
Casualty Country: Vietnam, Republic of
Casualty Category: Non-battle Dead
Casualty Status: Non-hostile Dead: Died Of Wounds/injury (previous)
Casualty Date: 3 Mar 1969
Cause of Death: Not Booby Trap Connected: None Of The Above; Other Weapons (including Cutting Instruments, Piercing Instruments, Blunt Instruments, Etc.)
Report Date: 3 Mar 1969
Province: Binh Duong
Military Occupation: Armor Intelligence Specialist (army)
Division: 1st Inf Div
Personnel Catagory: Active Duty Army
Military Class: Enlisted Personnel
Rank: Staff Sergeant
Source Information
Ancestry.com. U.S., Army Personnel and Dependent Casualties, 1961-1981 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2005.
Original data: National Archives and Records Administration. [File from the U.S. Army] Casualty Information System [Archival Database]; Records of Deceased Army Personnel, Deceased Dependents of Active-Duty Army Personnel, and Active-Duty Wounded Army Personnel, 1/1/1961 - 12/1981; Records of the Adjutant General's Office, Record Group 407; National Archives at College Park, College Park, MD.

U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007 No Image
Name: Jasper M Alexander
[Jasper Alexander]
Gender: Male
Birth Date: 28 Dec 1929
Death Date: Mar 1969
Claim Date: 19 Jan 1970
SSN: 320244725
Source Information
Ancestry.com. U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015.

Original data: Social Security Applications and Claims, 1936-2007.

Description

The 1st Battalion in the Vietnam War
The 1st Battalion, 16th Infantry arrived at Vung Tau, Vietnam, on 10 October 1965 with the 3rd Brigade, 1st Infantry Division. The battalion was initially moved to Camp Ben Cat in Phuoc Vinh Province north of Saigon. The division wasted no time getting this newly arrived brigade into the fight in Operation Bushmaster I & II along Highway 13 between Lai Khê and Bến Cát District in Phouc Vinh Province and around the Michelin Rubber Plantation. The Bushmaster operations were followed by Mastiff in February 1966 and the division-level Operation Abilene to find and destroy the Viet Cong 5th Division. Abilene was followed in rapid succession by Operations Birmingham and El Paso I, II, and III. On 9 July during El Paso II, the 1st Rangers participated in the Battle of Minh Thanh Road. After the El Paso missions, the battalion next took part in Operation Amarillo in August near Lai Khê, and Operations Tulsa/Shenandoah in October and November. The latter mission was designed to bring the Viet Cong 9th Division to battle in War Zone C, but the enemy declined to take the bait. Operation Attleboro once again saw the regiment's two battalions operating on the same mission to find and destroy the 9th Division, this time northwest of Dầu Tiếng District. The last mission for the battalion for 1966 was Operation Healdsburg near Lai Khê in December. In January 1967, the 1st Battalion next joined in Operation Cedar Falls, a major effort conducted by the 1st and 25th Infantry Divisions, the 173rd Airborne Brigade and the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment in Military Region 4, known as the "Iron Triangle" and the Thanh Dien Forest. Cedar Falls was followed by the enormous and extended Operation Junction City. The 1st Rangers participated in two major fights during Junction City: Prek Klok and Ap Gu. In the former battle, Platoon Sergeant Matthew Leonard from B Company was mortally wounded while demonstrating indomitable courage and superb leadership. For his actions he was awarded the regiment's tenth Medal of Honor. The battalion next experienced two additional significant firefights during Operation Billings north of Phuoc Vinh in June. These were the battles of Landing Zone (LZ) Rufe and LZ X-Ray. During the latter action, the Reconnaissance Platoon of the 1st Battalion withstood an attack by a battalion of the Viet Cong 271st Regiment and prevented the battalion perimeter from being overrun. Billings was followed by Operation Shenandoah II north of Lai Khê in October which once included both Ranger battalions and culminated the major operations of both for 1967. The year 1968 was an eventful one for the 1st Battalion. Starting in late January, the battalion, along with almost the entire combat force of U.S. Army, Vietnam (USARV), engaged in the Tet Counteroffensive designed to defeat the massive Tet Offensive of 1968. After Tet, the battalion successively partook in Operations Quyet Thang and Toan Thang. These operations held the battalion's attention most of the year until late 1968, when the 1st Rangers underwent a major change. On Friday, September 13, 1968, the "straight leg Infantry" 1st/16th of the 1st Infantry Division at Lai Khê, "swapped" colors and divisions, with the 5th/60th (Mechanized) of the 9th Infantry Division at Đồng Tâm Base Camp, in the Mekong River Delta. The 1st Battalion became a mechanized infantry unit which it has remained ever since. Because of this change, the battalion soon adopted the nickname "Iron Rangers." Throughout 1969, the Iron Rangers were involved the Vietnamization process which was designed to start turning over the planning and conduct of the war to the ARVN. Even so, the battalion joined in a number of combat operations such as Bear Trap, Friendship, Kentucky Cougar, Iron Danger and Toan Thang IV. During Kentucky Cougar in August, the Iron Rangers ran into a battalion of the 272nd Regiment near An Lộc in Bình Long Province and in an afternoon of hot fighting, accounted for 29 enemy KIA and an unknown number of wounded. During the year, the battalion accounted for an additional 426 enemy soldiers killed or captured even though the ARVN were supposed to take the lead for operations. The last months in Vietnam saw the battalion working closely with its ARVN counterparts as it concurrently prepared to end its mission and redeploy to Fort Riley.

The two battalions of the 16th Infantry fought in almost every campaign of the Vietnam War. During the almost five years of combat the regiment lost over 560 men, the regiment's soldiers were awarded 2 Medals of Honor (both posthumous), 10 Distinguished Service Crosses, and hundreds of Silver and Bronze Star Medals. The regiment was awarded 11 campaign streamers, as well as 2 Republic of Vietnam Cross of Gallantry (with Palm) Streamers for 1965-1968 and 1969 and the Republic of Vietnam Civil Action Honor Medal (First Class) Streamer for 1965–1970. In addition, C Company, 2nd Battalion was awarded the Valorous Unit Award Streamer for its actions at the battle of Courtenay Plantation.

Jasper Marion Alexander
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Sex
Male
Birth
28 December 1929
Dayton, Montgomery, Ohio
Death
3 March 1969
CITING THIS RECORD
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, "International Genealogical Index (IGI)," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/2:1:MSH7-Z7Z : accessed 24 October 2018), entry for Jasper Marion Alexander; submitted by dwhite700905 [identity withheld for privacy]; no source information is available.

Ohio, Births and Christenings Index, 1774-1973

NOT LISTED

Ohio, Birth Index, 1908-1964

Ohio, Birth Index, 1908-1964 No Image
Text-only collection
Name: Richard E Alexander
Birth Date: 28 Dec 1929
State File Number: 1929116699
Additional Information: Leonard
Source Information
Ancestry.com. Ohio, Birth Index, 1908-1964 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012.

Original data: Ohio Birth Records. Columbus, Ohio: Ohio Vital Records Office.

Ohio, Birth Index, 1908-1964 No Image
Text-only collection
Name: James Alexander
Birth Date: 28 Dec 1929
State File Number: 1929122089
Additional Information: Alexander
Source Information
Ancestry.com. Ohio, Birth Index, 1908-1964 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012.

Original data: Ohio Birth Records. Columbus, Ohio: Ohio Vital Records Office.

CLOSE, BUT NOT JASPER ALEXANDER