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SPC 5 Fred Carlton Jenkins

1 Aug 1919 – 2 Apr 1968

Birth	1 Aug 1919
Death	2 Apr 1968
Cemetery	Chattanooga Cemetery Chattanooga , Tillman County , Oklahoma , USA
Added by	Rebekah Hill on 17 Jan 2024
FaG	https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/90114150

Bio

WWII, Vietnam US Veteran SP5 Fred C. Jenkins was a welder in C Company, 725th Maintenance Battalion, 25th Infantry Division. On April 2, 1968, SP5 Jenkins died at the Cu Chi Base Camp in Hau Nghia Province, RVN, in what was described as a welding accident. While welding in the engine well of a military vehicle, an explosion occurred. The area he was working in filled with smoke and SP5 Jenkins was asphyxiated. He was 49 years-old. A year later, his son, U.S. Army pilot WO1 Bert M. Jenkins, was killed in action on April 28, 1969. The younger Jenkins was piloting a U.S. Army helicopter AH-1G tail (number 67-15835) from B Company, 1st Aviation Battalion, 1st Infantry Division, on a convoy ambush support mission between An Loc & Lai Khe along Highway QL-13. His aircraft came under enemy small arms fire, at which time WO1 Jenkins suffered a gunshot wound to the head. The aircraft made an emergency landing with the co-pilot at the controls. Jenkins was evacuated to a military hospital where he succumbed to his wound. The Jenkins were one of three pairs of fathers and sons who died during the Vietnam War. Taken from the Wall of Faces:

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Family

Parents

• Theophilus "Theo" Jenkins 1880–1951
• Ela Gertrude Tucker Jenkins 1882–1944

Siblings

• Mary Lou Jenkins Hemminger 1902–1993
• Joel Lee Jenkins 1909–1914
• Theodore J. Jenkins 1910–1911
• Charles Ashley "Charlie" Jenkins 1912–2005
• Caroline M. Jenkins 1913–1913
• Reagan Ervin Jenkins Sr 1915–2000
• 2LT Henry Albert Jenkins 1917–1939
• Lucille Maurice Jenkins Latronica 1921–2014
• Annie Elora Jenkins Waller 1924–2017

Children

• WO Bert McCree Jenkins 1940–1969 FaG

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