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JERRY DEAN WRIGHT
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
September 12, 1944 – May 22, 1968
Service recordJerry Dean Wright, of Garden Grove, California, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on May 22, 1968, in Dinh Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 66E, Line 5 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 66E · Line 5
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
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Combat Engineer (12B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- September 12, 1944
- Home of record
- Garden Grove, California (Orange County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 22, 1968
- Age
- 23
- Province
- Dinh Tuong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
73 names on the Wall carry the date May 22, 1968; he was the only one lost in Định Tường Province that day. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 24 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 66E, Line 5
- JAMES LEON ZIMMERPrivate First Class · May 22, 1968
- TOM PERRY ACTONGunnery Sergeant · May 23, 1968
- JOHN ERNEST ALBANESE JRSergeant · May 23, 1968
- THOMAS FREDERICK BUHRSergeant · May 23, 1968
From Garden Grove
- CARROLL MONROE BIERMAN JRCorporal · June 4, 1965
- ERNEST DARRELL MITCHELLPrivate First Class · July 20, 1966
- WILLIAM ROBERT PETERSENPrivate First Class · March 31, 1967
- MICHAEL ROY NELSONSpecialist Four · April 9, 1967
- HARVEY RICHARD SANDERSCorporal · May 12, 1967
- JAMES PATRICK FITZSIMMONSLance Corporal · May 18, 1967
- JON ROY HONRATHPrivate First Class · August 17, 1967
- ALLAN GEORGE KALFASLance Corporal · September 2, 1967
- GARY LEE BARKERSergeant · October 17, 1967
- DENNIS REX ESTESPrivate First Class · November 25, 1967
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.