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JERRY ALLEN TRUELOVE
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
September 12, 1949 – November 13, 1968
Service recordJerry Allen Truelove, of Lepanto, Arkansas, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on November 13, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 39W, Line 63 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 39W · Line 63
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- September 12, 1949
- Home of record
- Lepanto, Arkansas (Poinsett County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 13, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
30 names on the Wall carry the date November 13, 1968; he was the only one lost in Quảng Trị Province that day. In November 1968, 918 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 39W, Line 63
- GREG PATTERSON STIGERPrivate First Class · November 13, 1968
- CHARLES EARL YOUNGMaster Sergeant · November 13, 1968
- FRANCIS BALDINOPrivate First Class · November 14, 1968
- DAVID ALFORD BRADSHAWSpecialist Four · November 14, 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.