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JACK LEE SNODGRASS
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Marine Corps
March 22, 1943 – May 2, 1968
Service recordJack Lee Snodgrass, of Perry, Oklahoma, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on May 2, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 54E, Line 18 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 54E · Line 18
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Staff Sergeant (SSGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- March 22, 1943
- Home of record
- Perry, Oklahoma (Noble County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 2, 1968
- Age
- 25
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
113 names on the Wall carry the date May 2, 1968; 73 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 54E, Line 18
- GREGORY JOE STAPLESPrivate First Class · May 2, 1968
- RALPH CARSON STEWARTPrivate First Class · May 2, 1968
- PIERRE LEROY SULLIVANSpecialist Four · May 2, 1968
- MATTHEW EARL SUTTON JRLance Corporal · May 2, 1968
From Perry
- KENNETH TRUMAN RUSSELLCorporal · February 16, 1967
- GARY SIDNEY WHITESpecialist Four · March 22, 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.