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JERRY DEAN SPRADLIN
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
October 3, 1948 – February 23, 1969
Service recordJerry Dean Spradlin, of Mcguffey, Ohio, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on February 23, 1969, in Long Khanh Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 31W, Line 23 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 31W · Line 23
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
- Regular
- Occupation
- Fire Control Repairer (45G)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 LOGISTIC CMD
- Born
- October 3, 1948
- Home of record
- Mcguffey, Ohio (Hardin County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 23, 1969
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Long Khanh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
209 names on the Wall carry the date February 23, 1969; he was the only one lost in Long Khanh Province that day. In February 1969, 1,304 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “1 LOGISTIC CMD”, his unit in the record, lost 23 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 31W, Line 23
- LARRY DEAN STAGGSPrivate First Class · February 23, 1969
- JOHN JOSEPH STAHLPrivate First Class · February 23, 1969
- JERRY WAYNE STANBERRYPrivate First Class · February 23, 1969
- EDWARD BERNARD STEELESergeant First Class · February 23, 1969
Same unit, same day
- HOWARD STANLEY BIESANTZPrivate · Panel 32W, Line 89
- ROBERT DONALD EICKLEBERRYSpecialist Four · Panel 32W, Line 97
- WILLIAM ROY LAWSONSpecialist Four · Panel 31W, Line 8
- ROBERT MICHAEL LEESergeant · Panel 31W, Line 8
- STEPHEN JOSEPH PASTULASpecialist Four · Panel 31W, Line 14
- RONALD LLOYD SANDERSSpecialist Five · Panel 31W, Line 20
From Mcguffey
- RICHARD JOSEPH CLEMENTZPrivate First Class · January 30, 1968
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.