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JAMES CLAYTON KERR
Sergeant · U.S. Army
June 16, 1948 – December 6, 1968
Service recordJames Clayton Kerr, of Palmetto, Georgia, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on December 6, 1968, in Kien Phong Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 37W, Line 51 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 37W · Line 51
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
- Sergeant (SGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Tactical Wire Operations Specialist (36K)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- June 16, 1948
- Home of record
- Palmetto, Georgia (Coweta County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 6, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Kien Phong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
28 names on the Wall carry the date December 6, 1968; two of them were lost in Kien Phong Province. In December 1968, 855 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 75 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 37W, Line 51
- GUY BARE CREEP JRStaff Sergeant · December 6, 1968
- GLENN ELDEN HEFLINPrivate First Class · December 6, 1968
- WILBURT NATHANIEL HINESCorporal · December 6, 1968
- CHARLES ARTHUR LAUERStaff Sergeant · December 6, 1968
- EVERETT DALE RIEPEPrivate First Class · December 6, 1968
Same unit, same day
- WARREN JUDGE GOSSMajor · Panel 37W, Line 49
- AMEDEE GEORGE GRANELLE JRPrivate First Class · Panel 37W, Line 49
- DAVID GROENEPrivate First Class · Panel 37W, Line 50
- CARLOS A VELAZQUEZ-ORTIZPrivate First Class · Panel 37W, Line 53
- WILLIAM WALTER WAGNERPrivate First Class · Panel 37W, Line 54
From Palmetto
- CHARLES EDWARD WALTHALLPrivate First Class · May 21, 1968
- LEAVY CARLTON SOLOMONSpecialist Four · January 11, 1969
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.