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JERRY LEE NATIONS
Second Lieutenant · U.S. Army
May 18, 1935 – December 19, 1967
Service recordJerry Lee Nations, of Bastrop, Louisiana, served as a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on December 19, 1967, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 32. His name is inscribed on Panel 32E, Line 26 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 32E · Line 26
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
- Second Lieutenant (2LT)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Headquarters Company Commander (2900)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- May 18, 1935
- Home of record
- Bastrop, Louisiana
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 19, 1967
- Age
- 32
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Died of other causes
Context · from the records
What was happening
48 names on the Wall carry the date December 19, 1967; four of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In December 1967, 937 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 106 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 32E, Line 26
- GARY LESLIE NORMANCorporal · December 19, 1967
- LOUIE PETE PINAPrivate First Class · December 19, 1967
- RANDALL BREWARD PURDYLance Corporal · December 19, 1967
- STEVEN NICHOLAS RADUCorporal · December 19, 1967
Same unit, same day
- DAVE EDWARD ASHFORDSergeant First Class · Panel 32E, Line 19
- GEORGE PEYTON COLANGELOPrivate First Class · Panel 32E, Line 21
- WINSTON ADAMS TAGGARTSpecialist Four · Panel 32E, Line 28
From Bastrop
- HAROLD WAYNE LOWTHERSpecialist Five · April 5, 1966
- LEO PORTERSpecialist Four · August 18, 1967
- CHARLES CLIFTON HENDERSONSpecialist Four · August 25, 1967
- JERRY RANKIN HALEYFirst Lieutenant · February 3, 1968
- ROY LEE NATIONSPrivate First Class · May 12, 1969
- LOUIS EARL FENCEROYPrivate First Class · May 21, 1969
- DONNIE LUSTER KINGPrivate First Class · July 3, 1969
- JESSE UPTIGROVEStaff Sergeant · July 8, 1969
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.