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JERRY DALE CANTRELL
Private First Class · U.S. Army
August 15, 1949 – July 30, 1969
Service recordJerry Dale Cantrell, of Benton, Arkansas, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on July 30, 1969, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 20W, Line 75 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 20W · Line 75
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 5 INF DIV MECH
- Born
- August 15, 1949
- Home of record
- Benton, Arkansas (Saline County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- July 30, 1969
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
21 names on the Wall carry the date July 30, 1969; 13 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In July 1969, 834 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “5 INF DIV MECH”, his unit in the record, lost 15 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 20W, Line 75
- WILLIAM THORNTON POCHERCorporal · July 29, 1969
- DAVID EUGENE BRAMSENPrivate First Class · July 30, 1969
- TERRY LEE DALLAPESpecialist Four · July 30, 1969
- JAMES EDWARD GASSERPrivate First Class · July 30, 1969
Same unit, same day
- TERRY LEE DALLAPESpecialist Four · Panel 20W, Line 75
- EUGENE MAJOR ROBINSONSergeant First Class · Panel 20W, Line 76
- WILBERT EUGENE JONESSpecialist Four · Panel 20W, Line 77
- PERLUM M PARKER JRSpecialist Four · Panel 20W, Line 77
- JOHN RAY STASHONSKYPrivate First Class · Panel 20W, Line 78
- HAROLD OLIVER STUMPSpecialist Four · Panel 20W, Line 78
From Benton
- DELMAR LEE CROCKETT JRSergeant · February 18, 1967
- CARIO FULLERCorporal · April 9, 1967
- JOHN NORMAN WICKLIFFESergeant First Class · August 3, 1967
- THOMAS LEE HOOVERFirst Lieutenant · September 27, 1967
- JOHN H HARDINGSpecialist Four · October 8, 1967
- GREGORY KEITH REEVESPrivate First Class · July 7, 1968
- DENNIS TRUMAN ROBBINSPrivate First Class · August 26, 1968
- CARL WAYNE HILLPrivate First Class · February 25, 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.