JIMMY D LESTER
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HONORED ON PANEL 27W, LINE 92 OF THE WALL

JIMMY DON LESTER

WALL NAME

JIMMY D LESTER

PANEL / LINE

27W/92

DATE OF BIRTH

11/16/1947

CASUALTY PROVINCE

TAY NINH

DATE OF CASUALTY

04/15/1969

HOME OF RECORD

ELDON

COUNTY OF RECORD

Miller County

STATE

MO

BRANCH OF SERVICE

ARMY

RANK

SGT

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REMEMBRANCES

LEFT FOR JIMMY DON LESTER
POSTED ON 3.19.2023
POSTED BY: John Fabris

honoring you...

Thank you for your service to our country so long ago sir. The many remembrances from Karen Woods are moving and reflect her eternal love for you. As long as you are remembered you will remain in our hearts forever….
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POSTED ON 3.5.2022

Attack on Patrol Base Diamond III - April 15, 1969

Patrol Base Diamond III was established on April 14, 1969, by the 2nd Battalion, 27th Infantry Regiment during Operation Toan Thang III, a U.S. Army and Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) operation conducted between February 17 and October 31, 1969, designed to keep pressure on Viet Cong (VC) and North Vietnamese Army (NVA) forces in III Corps. Diamond III was located six miles southwest of Go Dau Ha in Tay Ninh Province, RVN, and one mile east of the Parrot's Beak near the Cambodian border. It was a well-fortified duplicate of Patrol Base Diamond II. While manned by U.S Army infantry and artillery units, the base was actually constructed U.S. Navy Sea Bee Team 0913 from Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 9 (NMBC-9). At 3:00 AM the morning following its construction, three battalions of NVA soldiers launched a heavy weapons and ground attack against Diamond III. The base received a total of 350 rocket-propelled grenades and 150 82mm mortar rounds. The two sections of howitzers at Diamond III fired 350 HE rounds (high explosive) and lowered their cannons nearly horizontal to fire twelve M546 anti-personnel Beehive rounds packed with metal flechettes directly at the swarming enemy troops. Nearby artillery units fired indirect support of more than 500 HE and 40 Firecracker antipersonnel fragmentation rounds with delayed-reaction detonations in an attempt to ward off the attack. Enemy losses were listed at 228 NVA dead with an additional estimated 200 additional casualties. Eight enemy were captured, one who told his American captors the Communist battle plan as he understood it: "We were going to overrun the base, then march to Saigon." Forty individual and forty-two crew-served enemy weapons were recovered. American losses were fifteen killed. They included (from 2nd Bn, 27th Infantry) SP4 Billy C. Alston, SP4 Stanley A. Carter, SP4 John G. Glassey, SP4 Michael E. Harr, SP4 Willie B. Jacobs, SP4 Lawrence O. Keller Jr., SP4 Jimmy D. Lester, SP4 Ralph Maynard, SP4 Anthony A. Proietti, SP4 Peter T. Rasmussen, SP4 John L. Smith, SP4 James W. Taylor, and SP4 Larry P. Tregre; and (from 1st Bn, 8th Arty) PFC James W. Derbyshire and PFC William F. Hitchcock. In the wake of the losses, several promotions occurred posthumously: Carter, Keller, Lester, and Proietti were advanced to Sergeant. [Taken from coffeltdatabase.org, virtualwall.org, and wikipedia.org; also, “Charged-up Reds paying heavily.” Pacific Stars & Stripes, April 17, 1969 at stripes.com]
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POSTED ON 4.5.2020
POSTED BY: Lucy Micik

Thank You

Dear Sgt Jimmy Lester, Thank you for your service as an Indirect Fire Infantryman. Your 51st anniversary is soon, sad. Saying thank you isn't enough, but it is from the heart. Happy Spring! Today is Palm Sunday. The time passes quickly. Please watch over America, it stills needs your strength, courage, guidance and faithfulness. Rest in peace with the angels.
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POSTED ON 11.16.2018
POSTED BY: KAREN WOODS

BIRTHDAY

MISS YOU SO MUCH! HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
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POSTED ON 11.16.2018

Jimmy

Jimmy.....Honoring You on your birthday...God bless
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