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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Jerry Grant Ingram.

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JERRY GRANT INGRAM

Private First Class · U.S. Army

October 1, 1948 – September 27, 1967

Service record

Jerry Grant Ingram, of Tallahassee, Florida, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on September 27, 1967, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 27E, Line 20 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 27E · Line 20

Position of Panel 27E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
101 AIRBORNE DIV
Born
October 1, 1948
Home of record
Tallahassee, Florida (Leon County)

Casualty

Date of death
September 27, 1967
Age
18
Province
Quang Tin
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

25 names on the Wall carry the date September 27, 1967; five of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In September 1967, 929 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 39 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 27E, Line 20

Same unit, same day

From Tallahassee

All 26 names from Tallahassee →

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.