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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault.
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Bill Henry Terry JR.

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BILL HENRY TERRY JR

Corporal · U.S. Army

February 23, 1949 – July 3, 1969

Service record

Bill Henry Terry JR, of Birmingham, Alabama, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Army. He died on July 3, 1969, in Long Khanh Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 21W, Line 57 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 21W · Line 57

Position of Panel 21W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Corporal (CPL)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
199 LIGHT INF BDE
Born
February 23, 1949
Home of record
Birmingham, Alabama (Jefferson County)

Casualty

Date of death
July 3, 1969
Age
20
Province
Long Khanh
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Grenade

Context · from the records

What was happening

42 names on the Wall carry the date July 3, 1969; ten of them were lost in Long Khanh Province. In July 1969, 834 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 199th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 20 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 21W, Line 57

Same unit, same day

From Birmingham

All 160 names from Birmingham →

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.