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FERROL SHANE SMITH
Private First Class · U.S. Army
July 27, 1948 – March 27, 1969
Service recordFerrol Shane Smith, of Grants Pass, Oregon, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on March 27, 1969, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 28W, Line 63 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 28W · Line 63
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- July 27, 1948
- Home of record
- Grants Pass, Oregon (Josephine County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 27, 1969
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
47 names on the Wall carry the date March 27, 1969; three of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In March 1969, 1,553 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 71 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 28W, Line 63
- ROGER WAYNE PATTONSpecialist Four · March 27, 1969
- WILLIAM DON POTTERWarrant Officer 1 · March 27, 1969
- SAMUEL ALBERT ROBERSONWarrant Officer 1 · March 27, 1969
- WILLIAM P THOMPSON JRPrivate First Class · March 27, 1969
From Grants Pass
- GROVER KONARD OLSONPrivate First Class · January 17, 1964
- ROBERT LEE VESTSergeant · November 5, 1966
- JOHN FREDERICK FLEMINGSpecialist Four · April 29, 1967
- STEPHEN LOUIS HOCKPetty Officer Second Class · July 29, 1967
- CECIL LEE JONESPrivate First Class · April 1, 1968
- ROBERT BRUCE THOMPSONCorporal · April 20, 1968
- GREGORY JOE STAPLESPrivate First Class · May 2, 1968
- RODNEY WALTER PETERSPetty Officer First Class · November 1, 1968
- WILLIAM NORMAN JENSEN JRSergeant · May 22, 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.