JIMMY C STINNETT
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HONORED ON PANEL 1E, LINE 122 OF THE WALL

JIMMY CLIFORD STINNETT

WALL NAME

JIMMY C STINNETT

PANEL / LINE

1E/122

DATE OF BIRTH

07/07/1946

CASUALTY PROVINCE

OFFSHORE, PR&MR UNK.

DATE OF CASUALTY

05/21/1965

HOME OF RECORD

CARTERSVILLE

COUNTY OF RECORD

Cumberland County

STATE

VA

BRANCH OF SERVICE

NAVY

RANK

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LEFT FOR JIMMY CLIFORD STINNETT
POSTED ON 2.11.2024
POSTED BY: John Fabris

honoring you.....

Thank you for your service to our country so long ago sir. You died at 18 years of age. I am 74 and have lived a long and fulfilling life. It is tragic you never had that same opportunity. May you rest in eternal peace.
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POSTED ON 5.19.2022
POSTED BY: Lucy Micik

Thank You

Dear SN Jimmy Stinnett, Thank you for your service as a Seaman on the USS SOMERS. Your 57th anniversary is soon, sad. Saying thank you isn't enough, but it is from the heart. The 47th anniversary of the last battle of the war just passed. Time passes quickly. Please watch over America, it stills needs your strength, courage, guidance and faithfulness, especially now. Rest in peace with the angels.
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POSTED ON 7.5.2020
POSTED BY: ANON

Never forgotten

SN Jimmy C. Stinnett is buried Cartersville Cemetery in Cartersville, VA.

'Your sacrifice is not forgotten.

Forever 18.
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POSTED ON 10.22.2017

Casualty at Sea

SN Jimmy C. Stinnett was a seaman aboard the destroyer USS Somers (DD-947). On May 21, 1965, the Stinnett was supporting combat operations in Vietnam and had just concluded a 120-round fire mission from its starboard side when a call was made for a corpsman. During the rapid-fire mission, the muzzle of Gunmount 51 exploded when a 5-inch round detonated prematurely within the barrel. Metal fragments from the burst struck SN Stinnett in the left side, critically injuring him while he was at his station as the starboard Target Designation Transmitter Operator. Efforts of personnel at the scene and the hospital corpsman to render first aid were unavailing, and Stinnett died of his wounds. His body was later transferred to a patrol junk and transported to the Naval Hospital in Saigon, RVN. [Taken from coffeltdatabase.org]
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POSTED ON 5.15.2017
POSTED BY: Raymond Chinn Jr. SN

My Battle Station

My Battle Station aboard the USS Somers DD 947 was in the forward Gun Mount 51 Magazine on that fateful day 21 May 1965, I was 19 years old.
During that Naval Operation off the coast of South Vietnam we was sending 5 inch 54 shells and gun powder up to Gun Mount 51at a very fast pace, not knowing until after it was over that we had lost a Ship Mate.
I did not personally know Jimmy, but I felt so sorry and sad for his lost.
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