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GERALD KING NEER
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Marine Corps
April 4, 1942 – June 17, 1969
Service recordGerald King Neer, of Winfield, Kansas, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on June 17, 1969, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 27. His name is inscribed on Panel 22W, Line 67 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 22W · Line 67
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Staff Sergeant (SSGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Intelligence Assistant (0239)
- Born
- April 4, 1942
- Home of record
- Winfield, Kansas (Cowley County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 17, 1969
- Age
- 27
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
48 names on the Wall carry the date June 17, 1969; 22 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In June 1969, 1,246 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 22W, Line 67
- JOHNIE FRANKLIN GRANBERRYPrivate First Class · June 17, 1969
- DANIEL ARNOLD MAYSpecialist Five · June 17, 1969
- DOUGLAS WAYNE MCPHEEPrivate First Class · June 17, 1969
- GREGORIO MANUEL MORAPrivate First Class · June 17, 1969
From Winfield
- STEVEN CLINTON HEFFNERSpecialist Four · April 26, 1968
- WILLIAM LAWRENCE REYNOLDSFirst Lieutenant · May 28, 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.