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EDWARD LEE PERRY
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
June 2, 1948 – April 30, 1968
Service recordEdward Lee Perry, of Fairborn, Ohio, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on April 30, 1968, in Hua Nghia Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 53E, Line 20 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 53E · Line 20
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- June 2, 1948
- Home of record
- Fairborn, Ohio (Greene County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 30, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Hua Nghia
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
87 names on the Wall carry the date April 30, 1968; seven of them were lost in Hua Nghia Province. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 110 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 53E, Line 20
- ADAM SERNA NAJARPrivate First Class · April 30, 1968
- JOHN MICHAEL ODELLSecond Lieutenant · April 30, 1968
- RONALD EUGENE PARRPrivate First Class · April 30, 1968
- JOHN EMIDIO PASQUANTONIOLance Corporal · April 30, 1968
Same unit, same day
- CHARLES JOEL BEHM JRSergeant · Panel 53E, Line 9
- RICHARD LEROY ENDICOTTCaptain · Panel 53E, Line 11
- JOHN PALMORE HOLCOMBSpecialist Four · Panel 53E, Line 15
- DONALD RAY JOHNSONPrivate First Class · Panel 53E, Line 16
- RONALD EUGENE PARRPrivate First Class · Panel 53E, Line 20
- JACK ALLEN WHETSEL JRFirst Lieutenant · Panel 53E, Line 25
- EDDIE JOE WHITESergeant · Panel 53E, Line 25
- JAMES E WHITESpecialist Four · Panel 53E, Line 25
From Fairborn
- EDWARD API LOVELLStaff Sergeant · December 28, 1965
- JULIAN A FINCHER JRWarrant Officer 1 · January 23, 1967
- RONALD MICHAEL OBENOURSpecialist Four · March 6, 1968
- ARLIE TERRYStaff Sergeant · March 6, 1968
- LESLIE BERKLEY SAYREFirst Lieutenant · March 20, 1968
- HAROLD LECURNE ZUG JRSergeant · August 27, 1968
- LEONARD RAY MARTINSergeant · December 9, 1968
- THOMAS WILLIAM LANDRUMSpecialist Four · November 12, 1969
- CHARLES EDWARD THOMAS JRSpecialist Four · February 14, 1970
- RONALD DEAN SWINFORDLance Corporal · September 4, 1970
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.