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JAY LEROY EVERETT
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
December 22, 1927 – July 25, 1969
Service recordJay Leroy Everett, of Latrobe, Pennsylvania, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on July 25, 1969, in Pleiku Province, South Vietnam, at age 41. His name is inscribed on Panel 20W, Line 43 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 20W · 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
- Sergeant First Class (SFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Counterintelligence Analyst (97B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- E DET 1 MI BN 525 MI GRP USARV
- Born
- December 22, 1927
- Home of record
- Latrobe, Pennsylvania (Westmoreland County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- July 25, 1969
- Age
- 41
- Province
- Pleiku
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
19 names on the Wall carry the date July 25, 1969; four of them were lost in Pleiku Province. In July 1969, 834 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 20W, Line 43
- JIMMY DARRELL COURTNEYPrivate First Class · July 25, 1969
- JOSE ALEJANDRO DELGADOCaptain · July 25, 1969
- GERALD EUGENE DUBEAUSergeant · July 25, 1969
- JOHN B GAINGERSpecialist Four · July 25, 1969
From Latrobe
- DENNIS DALE KAISERCorporal · May 9, 1966
- RICHARD SCOTT GRAHAMCorporal · March 2, 1967
- JOSEPH LEONARD BRIDGEPrivate · March 5, 1967
- LARRY EUGENE YODERPetty Officer Third Class · May 2, 1967
- ROBERT MICHAEL PRIVIECHPetty Officer Third Class · July 29, 1967
- JOSEPH EDWARD ROBLELance Corporal · September 16, 1968
- FRANCIS JOSEPH BIRCHAKCaptain · January 11, 1969
- JAMES HARRISON MOORESergeant First Class · March 19, 1969
- BLAINE WILBERT ENOS JRSpecialist Four · January 31, 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.