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JERRY HOGUE HEIZER
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
August 8, 1947 – September 6, 1967
Service recordJerry Hogue Heizer, of Staunton, Virginia, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on September 6, 1967, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 26E, Line 10 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 26E · Line 10
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Machinegunner (0331)
- Born
- August 8, 1947
- Home of record
- Staunton, Virginia (Staunton (City) County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 6, 1967
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Tin
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
80 names on the Wall carry the date September 6, 1967; 47 of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In September 1967, 929 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 26E, Line 10
- DALE ALAN GUNNELLCorporal · September 6, 1967
- JAMES VERNON HEMBREESpecialist Four · September 6, 1967
- DONALD RAY HENRYLance Corporal · September 6, 1967
- PATRICK HERRONLance Corporal · September 6, 1967
From Staunton
- WOODROW MELVIN FITZGERALDCaptain · October 24, 1963
- DWIGHT POLLARD BOWLESMajor · November 3, 1965
- CHARLES KENNETH MORAN JRLieutenant · February 25, 1965
- CLARENCE WILLIS OBIE IIILance Corporal · December 22, 1967
- THOMAS JOSEPH RICHARDS JRCorporal · May 10, 1968
- DENHAM A WHITESELL JRLance Corporal · December 2, 1968
- VICTOR LEE ELLINGERFirst Lieutenant · November 24, 1970
- FRANKLIN U BRECKENRIDGESpecialist Four · November 28, 1970
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.