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JERRY CAPE
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
December 27, 1946 – April 25, 1967
Service recordJerry Cape, of Woodruff, South Carolina, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on April 25, 1967, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 18E, Line 83 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 18E · Line 83
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
- Combat Engineer (1371)
- Born
- December 27, 1946
- Home of record
- Woodruff, South Carolina (Spartanburg County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 25, 1967
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
32 names on the Wall carry the date April 25, 1967; 13 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In April 1967, 887 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 18E, Line 83
- ROBERT MICHAEL WAINZLance Corporal · April 24, 1967
- JAMES LYLE BELLCorporal · April 25, 1967
- LARRY GENE BONNELLFirst Lieutenant · April 25, 1967
- DALE EUGENE CARMICHAELPrivate First Class · April 25, 1967
From Woodruff
- CARL THOMPSONSpecialist Four · May 12, 1969
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.