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JEROME BELL
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
October 29, 1944 – August 16, 1968
Service recordJerome Bell, of Fosters, Alabama, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on August 16, 1968, in Kien Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 48W, Line 22 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 48W · Line 22
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
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- October 29, 1944
- Home of record
- Fosters, Alabama (Tuscaloosa County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 16, 1968
- Age
- 23
- Province
- Kien Tuong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
55 names on the Wall carry the date August 16, 1968; he was the only one lost in Kien Tuong Province that day. In August 1968, 1,313 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 108 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 48W, Line 22
- JOHN LESTER BEGANPrivate First Class · August 16, 1968
- LURAL LEE BLEVINS IIISpecialist Four · August 16, 1968
- DAVID RICHARD BOEVERPrivate First Class · August 16, 1968
- THOMAS WAYNE MUSICKLance Corporal · August 16, 1968
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.