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JERRY BARBER WILSON
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
June 1, 1945 – December 14, 1966
Service recordJerry Barber Wilson, of Mackay, Idaho, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on December 14, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 13E, Line 46 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 13E · Line 46
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
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 INF DIV
- Born
- June 1, 1945
- Home of record
- Mackay, Idaho (Custer County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 14, 1966
- Age
- 21
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
23 names on the Wall carry the date December 14, 1966. In December 1966, 533 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 56 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 13E, Line 46
- RANDALL ALLEN VANATTAPrivate First Class · December 14, 1966
- CHARLES EMANUEL WATKINSPrivate First Class · December 14, 1966
- KENNETH WILLIAM WAWERSIKPrivate First Class · December 14, 1966
- CLAUDE DAVID WILSON JRLieutenant Commander · December 14, 1966
From Mackay
- JOHN LYNN POWERSSpecialist Four · February 15, 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.