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JERRY DEWAIN EVANS
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
March 5, 1944 – February 23, 1968
Service recordJerry Dewain Evans, of Holland Patent, New York, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on February 23, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 40E, Line 73 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 40E · Line 73
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
- Born
- March 5, 1944
- Home of record
- Holland Patent, New York (Oneida County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 23, 1968
- Age
- 23
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
56 names on the Wall carry the date February 23, 1968; 11 of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 168 of its members that month.
He died in Thừa Thiên Province while the Battle of Huế was under way. At Huế (31 January–2 March 1968), Marines, soldiers of the 1st Cavalry and 101st Airborne divisions and South Vietnamese troops fought house to house for 26 days to retake the old imperial capital, the longest urban battle of the war. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Also on Panel 40E, Line 73
- RUBEN ANTHONY BURGESSPrivate First Class · February 23, 1968
- JAMES CHISHOLMPrivate First Class · February 23, 1968
- LONNIE WARREN CLARKCorporal · February 23, 1968
- JAMES RALPH ETHERIDGELieutenant Colonel · February 23, 1968
Same unit, same day
- LARRY ADAMSSpecialist Four · Panel 40E, Line 72
- GOLA CALVIN BETLEYOUNPrivate First Class · Panel 40E, Line 72
- JACK GALE KRIDERCorporal · Panel 40E, Line 76
- RANDY COIS MOORECorporal · Panel 40E, Line 77
- ALFRED EDGAR PLAEP JRCorporal · Panel 41E, Line 1
- TINEY W WINTERSSergeant · Panel 41E, Line 5
From Holland Patent
- ALLEN MORGAN GARRETTPrivate · May 17, 1966
- LEROY CHARLES HOWECorporal · May 13, 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.