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HUGER LEE PHELPS
Petty Officer Third Class · U.S. Navy
September 19, 1946 – February 10, 1969
Service recordHuger Lee Phelps, of Greenfield, Indiana, served as a Petty Officer Third Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on February 10, 1969, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 32W, Line 7 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 32W · Line 7
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. Navy
- Rank
- Petty Officer Third Class (PO3)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Hospital Corpsman (HM)
- Born
- September 19, 1946
- Home of record
- Greenfield, Indiana (Multiple County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 10, 1969
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
32 names on the Wall carry the date February 10, 1969; two of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In February 1969, 1,304 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 32W, Line 7
- RICK V JENSENSergeant · February 10, 1969
- DENNIS ALFRED JEZIORSKICorporal · February 10, 1969
- JAMES RICHARD LOVELLCorporal · February 10, 1969
- EDDIE ANTHONY MARTINEZ JRPrivate First Class · February 10, 1969
From Greenfield
- JOHN LARRY MODGLINPrivate First Class · July 18, 1967
- RODGER DALE HASTESpecialist Four · December 22, 1967
- MICHAEL LEROY EBERTCorporal · March 21, 1968
- WILLIAM MARION BREES JRHospitalman · October 8, 1968
- NORRIS RAY BORGMANSergeant · January 6, 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.