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HENRY HARRISON FORD JR
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
May 28, 1946 – December 12, 1966
Service recordHenry Harrison Ford JR, of Rutherfordton, North Carolina, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on December 12, 1966, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 13E, Line 37 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 13E · Line 37
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- May 28, 1946
- Home of record
- Rutherfordton, North Carolina (Rutherford County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 12, 1966
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
14 names on the Wall carry the date December 12, 1966; he was the only one lost in Quảng Nam Province that day. In December 1966, 533 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 13E, Line 37
- BENNY ARNOLD STARRFirst Lieutenant · December 11, 1966
- JOSHUA WELCH JRPrivate First Class · December 11, 1966
- HOWARD CECIL WESTSpecialist Four · December 11, 1966
- JOHN EDWARD WIDENERPrivate First Class · December 11, 1966
From Rutherfordton
- JOHN MITCHELL HICKSSpecialist Four · May 14, 1967
- JIMMY LEROY JOHNSON JRSergeant · January 26, 1968
- DOUGLAS GRANT BAILEYPrivate First Class · April 5, 1968
- MICHAEL RAY STREETSpecialist Four · June 6, 1971
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.