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JERRY LAYNE MCKINNEY
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
February 9, 1947 – April 8, 1967
Service recordJerry Layne McKinney, of Leaksville, North Carolina, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on April 8, 1967, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 17E, Line 126 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 17E · Line 126
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
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- February 9, 1947
- Home of record
- Leaksville, North Carolina (Rockingham County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 8, 1967
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
56 names on the Wall carry the date April 8, 1967; ten of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In April 1967, 887 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 17E, Line 126
- ALBERT MARSHALL GUYERFirst Lieutenant · April 8, 1967
- PETER ROVERT MCCARTHYCorporal · April 8, 1967
- CHARLES MICHAEL MCKINNEYPrivate First Class · April 8, 1967
- WILLIAM P NEUTZLINGSpecialist Four · April 8, 1967
From Leaksville
- WILLIAM CHARLES JOHNSONSpecialist Four · May 29, 1967
- WILLARD GERALD WRIGHTPrivate First Class · February 12, 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.