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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 Lee Bell.

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JERRY LEE BELL

Lance Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps

March 27, 1946 – March 22, 1967

Service record

Jerry Lee Bell, of Chattanooga, Tennessee, served as a Lance Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on March 22, 1967, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 17E, Line 17 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 17E · Line 17

Position of Panel 17E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Marine Corps
Rank
Lance Corporal (LCPL)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Shore Party Specialist (1381)
Unit (as recorded)
H S CO 1 BN 4 MAR 9 MAB
Born
March 27, 1946
Home of record
Chattanooga, Tennessee (Hamilton County)

Casualty

Date of death
March 22, 1967
Age
20
Province
Quang Tri
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

53 names on the Wall carry the date March 22, 1967; six of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In March 1967, 1,091 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 17E, Line 17

From Chattanooga

All 73 names from Chattanooga →

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.