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JERRY ARTHUR SNIPES
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
January 18, 1950 – April 13, 1968
Service recordJerry Arthur Snipes, of Albemarle, North Carolina, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on April 13, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 49E, Line 48 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 49E · Line 48
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- January 18, 1950
- Home of record
- Albemarle, North Carolina (Stanly County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 13, 1968
- Age
- 18
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
60 names on the Wall carry the date April 13, 1968; 26 of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Read the history
Also on Panel 49E, Line 48
- STANLEY SPIKESSpecialist Four · April 13, 1968
- JUAN PEDRO VALDEZSpecialist Four · April 13, 1968
- LAWRENCE JAMES VARGASLance Corporal · April 13, 1968
- ALFRED VAN WHITMERLance Corporal · April 13, 1968
From Albemarle
- HENRY FONZO SMITHSergeant · November 17, 1965
- WILLIAM DAVID LAMBERTPrivate First Class · December 7, 1966
- HARRY LAMAR BLALOCKPrivate First Class · April 3, 1968
- JAMES FELIX RUMMAGECorporal · December 21, 1968
- WILLIAM JAMES MASKESergeant · March 28, 1969
- RICHARD LEE SICKLESCorporal · May 12, 1969
- CURTIS RAY HARRISSpecialist Four · May 14, 1969
- EUGENE PAUL CLARKCorporal · August 12, 1969
- HAROLD PHILIP FESPERMANSergeant · February 14, 1970
- JOEL CLINTON HATLEYSpecialist Four · March 5, 1971
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.