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ANDREW LEE PRESLEY JR
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
June 7, 1943 – March 23, 1969
Service recordAndrew Lee Presley JR, of Mobile, Alabama, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on March 23, 1969, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 28W, Line 21 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 28W · Line 21
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
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 198 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- June 7, 1943
- Home of record
- Mobile, Alabama (Mobile County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 23, 1969
- Age
- 25
- Province
- Quang Tin
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
33 names on the Wall carry the date March 23, 1969; four of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In March 1969, 1,553 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 198th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 33 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 28W, Line 21
- JERRY LEE PETERSONSpecialist Four · March 23, 1969
- LEON SEARSPrivate First Class · March 23, 1969
- JOHNNY LEE SMITHSpecialist Four · March 23, 1969
- LEO BRIAN SMITHSergeant · March 23, 1969
Same unit, same day
- MICHAEL ARTHUR GEHLSpecialist Four · Panel 28W, Line 18
- GREGORY EUGENE NEWMANSergeant · Panel 28W, Line 20
- LOUIS BERNARD WANER IISpecialist Four · Panel 28W, Line 20
From Mobile
- ANDREW C MITCHELL IIICaptain · April 8, 1963
- DAVID RUDOLPH DICKENSFirst Sergeant · November 1, 1965
- EDDIE LEE HILL JRCorporal · November 4, 1965
- SHERMAN ELDRIDGE OTISPrivate First Class · November 17, 1965
- NATHANIEL EARL CARTER IIISergeant · November 25, 1965
- ROBERT EDWARD BEXLEYPrivate First Class · January 30, 1966
- ROBERT LOUIS BEATONSergeant · February 22, 1966
- JOSEPH EMMETT LILLEYPrivate First Class · May 14, 1966
- JAMES DWIGHT NEWCOMBLance Corporal · July 17, 1966
- TIMOTHY SCOTT DAVIESLance Corporal · July 20, 1966
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.