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Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969.
Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969. Photo: U.S. Marine Corps, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Jerry Harold Bryant.

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JERRY HAROLD BRYANT

Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps

October 19, 1941 – January 26, 1967

Service record

Jerry Harold Bryant, of Portales, New Mexico, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on January 26, 1967, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 14E, Line 79 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 14E · Line 79

Position of Panel 14E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Marine Corps
Rank
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Rifleman (0311)
Born
October 19, 1941
Home of record
Portales, New Mexico (Roosevelt County)

Casualty

Date of death
January 26, 1967
Age
25
Province
Quang Tin
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

32 names on the Wall carry the date January 26, 1967; two of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In January 1967, 638 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 14E, Line 79

From Portales

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.