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HERMAN PARKER JR
Private First Class · U.S. Army
January 7, 1950 – September 5, 1968
Service recordHerman Parker JR, of Gray Summit, Missouri, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on September 5, 1968, in Darlac Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 45W, Line 43 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 45W · Line 43
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
- Regular
- Occupation
- Field Artillery Basic (13A)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- January 7, 1950
- Home of record
- Gray Summit, Missouri (Franklin County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 5, 1968
- Age
- 18
- Province
- Darlac
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
37 names on the Wall carry the date September 5, 1968; two of them were lost in Darlac Province. In September 1968, 1,184 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 33 of its members that month.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 45W, Line 43
- THOMAS LANEPrivate First Class · September 5, 1968
- ALLEN WAYNE OREMPrivate First Class · September 5, 1968
- BOBBY JACK PAPPANSergeant · September 5, 1968
- JERALD PAUL PERETIATKOPrivate First Class · September 5, 1968
Same unit, same day
- LAWRENCE FRANK JAWOROWICZCorporal · Panel 45W, Line 41
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.