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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault.
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Jerry Dean Pierce.

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JERRY DEAN PIERCE

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

April 20, 1948 – October 9, 1968

Service record

Jerry Dean Pierce, of Spencer, Oklahoma, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on October 9, 1968, in Pleiku Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 41W, Line 37 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 41W · Line 37

Position of Panel 41W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Grader Operator (62K)
Unit (as recorded)
584 ENG CO 20 ENG BN 937 ENG GRP 18 ENG BDE
Born
April 20, 1948
Home of record
Spencer, Oklahoma (Oklahoma County)

Casualty

Date of death
October 9, 1968
Age
20
Province
Pleiku
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Drowning

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24 names on the Wall carry the date October 9, 1968; two of them were lost in Pleiku Province. In October 1968, 821 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

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Also on Panel 41W, Line 37

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.