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JEROME MENTER
Petty Officer Third Class · U.S. Navy
July 25, 1947 – May 12, 1969
Service recordJerome Menter, of Englewood, New Jersey, served as a Petty Officer Third Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on May 12, 1969, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 25W, Line 77 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 25W · Line 77
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. Navy
- Rank
- Petty Officer Third Class (PO3)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Hospital Corpsman (HM)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 3 BN 5 MAR 1 MARDIV
- Born
- July 25, 1947
- Home of record
- Englewood, New Jersey (Bergen County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 12, 1969
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
170 names on the Wall carry the date May 12, 1969; 39 of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In May 1969, 1,456 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 25W, Line 77
- RODNEY H MAUNAKEASpecialist Four · May 12, 1969
- JOSEPH ERNEST MELVINCorporal · May 12, 1969
- JORGE LUIS MENDEZ-MATOSPrivate First Class · May 12, 1969
- RICHARD THOMAS MILLERLance Corporal · May 12, 1969
From Englewood
- JOSEPH M KIERNAN JRLieutenant Colonel · June 3, 1967
- JAMES THOMAS GORDONCorporal · February 17, 1968
- SYLVESTER JOHNSONPrivate First Class · December 21, 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.