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HERLEY AYER JR
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
February 6, 1931 – January 17, 1968
Service recordHerley Ayer JR, of Kahoka, Missouri, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on January 17, 1968, in Dinh Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 36. His name is inscribed on Panel 34E, Line 61 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 34E · Line 61
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Sergeant First Class (SFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- February 6, 1931
- Home of record
- Kahoka, Missouri (Clark County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 17, 1968
- Age
- 36
- Province
- Dinh Tuong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
22 names on the Wall carry the date January 17, 1968; three of them were lost in Định Tường Province. In January 1968, 1,546 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 97 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 34E, Line 61
- JOHN CULLIN WHITESpecialist Four · January 16, 1968
- JOHN HOLGER WRISBERG IIISpecialist Four · January 16, 1968
- JOHN F YOUNGCaptain · January 16, 1968
- SAM FESTIS BEACH JRCaptain · January 17, 1968
Same unit, same day
- WILLIE DURANTPrivate First Class · Panel 34E, Line 62
- RONALD LEE STROOMERPrivate First Class · Panel 34E, Line 62
- KENNETH RAY BELSARPrivate First Class · Panel 34E, Line 65
- MIKE RALPH VELASCOSergeant · Panel 34E, Line 65
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.