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JERRY DON GIESECKE
Corporal · U.S. Army
June 30, 1948 – December 18, 1969
Service recordJerry Don Giesecke, of Comanche, Texas, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Army. He died on December 18, 1969, in Long Khanh Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 15W, Line 70 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 15W · Line 70
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
- Corporal (CPL)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 199 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- June 30, 1948
- Home of record
- Comanche, Texas (Comanche County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 18, 1969
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Long Khanh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
Nine names on the Wall carry the date December 18, 1969; he was the only one lost in Long Khanh Province that day. In December 1969, 509 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 199th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 20 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 15W, Line 70
- ROGER JOHN FLYNNPrivate First Class · December 18, 1969
- WILLIAM ROBERT HASSELLCorporal · December 18, 1969
- ROBERT CHARLES HOUSMANSpecialist Four · December 18, 1969
- CHARLES DAVID NEWMANPrivate First Class · December 18, 1969
From Comanche
- BILLIE WELDON WILKINSONSergeant First Class · November 4, 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.