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IVY GALE CHILDRESS
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
February 26, 1948 – June 25, 1968
Service recordIvy Gale Childress, of Dyersburg, Tennessee, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on June 25, 1968, in Long An Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 55W, Line 33 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 55W · Line 33
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
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- February 26, 1948
- Home of record
- Dyersburg, Tennessee (Dyer County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 25, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Long An
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
39 names on the Wall carry the date June 25, 1968; ten of them were lost in Long An Province. In June 1968, 1,257 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 118 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 55W, Line 33
- TERRY HUDGINS BROOKSSpecialist Four · June 25, 1968
- JOSEPH GEORGE P CATOIR JRSpecialist Five · June 25, 1968
- GEORGE DOUGLAS DELLSpecialist Five · June 25, 1968
- JAMES BRUCE TASKERWarrant Officer 1 · June 25, 1968
Same unit, same day
- TERRY HUDGINS BROOKSSpecialist Four · Panel 55W, Line 33
- CHARLES JAMES HUZICKOSergeant · Panel 55W, Line 35
- PHILLIP ROGERSSpecialist Five · Panel 55W, Line 37
- RICHARD SIMMONSStaff Sergeant · Panel 55W, Line 38
- ROBERTO BRAGHINI JRSergeant First Class · Panel 55W, Line 39
- DENNIS EUGENE THOMPSONSpecialist Four · Panel 55W, Line 39
- DOMINIC UNGARO JRPrivate First Class · Panel 55W, Line 39
- PHILLIP MURRY WEDDINGTONPrivate First Class · Panel 54W, Line 1
- MACK WILBERT WILLIAMSCorporal · Panel 54W, Line 1
From Dyersburg
- JAMES ALTON GARDNERFirst Lieutenant · February 7, 1966
- ROBERT LEE DUNCANCorporal · October 6, 1967
- CHARLES EDWARD NOVELSpecialist Four · February 9, 1968
- JOE THOMAS KEMMERLINGStaff Sergeant · April 2, 1968
- WILLIAM LEE HARRISPrivate First Class · June 28, 1968
- JERRY PAUL BARBEEPrivate First Class · July 5, 1968
- JOSEPH WESTER JONES IIICaptain · October 8, 1968
- BOBBY JOE LEMONSSergeant · May 19, 1970
- JAMES PATRICK CODDINGTONMajor · November 9, 1970
- JOHN HARRY BROCKSergeant · July 7, 1972
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.