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JERRY LEE NEWMAN
Petty Officer Second Class · U.S. Navy
May 16, 1944 – August 28, 1967
Service recordJerry Lee Newman, of Agenda, Kansas, served as a Petty Officer Second Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on August 28, 1967, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 25E, Line 59 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 25E · Line 59
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. Navy
- Rank
- Petty Officer Second Class (PO2)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Builder (BU)
- Unit (as recorded)
- NMCB 11 3 NC BDE
- Born
- May 16, 1944
- Home of record
- Agenda, Kansas (Republic County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 28, 1967
- Age
- 23
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
28 names on the Wall carry the date August 28, 1967; 11 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In August 1967, 683 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “NMCB 11 3 NC BDE”, his unit in the record, lost 3 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 25E, Line 59
- PHILLIP WILLARD LESLIELance Corporal · August 28, 1967
- JEROME DEAN PATTERSONConstructionman · August 28, 1967
- ALAN ANGEL SANTIAGOLance Corporal · August 28, 1967
- BLAIR WILLIAM STARKEYConstructionman · August 28, 1967
Same unit, same day
- ANTHONY JOHN GRASSOConstructionman · Panel 25E, Line 57
- RICHARD JAMES WAGERConstructionman · Panel 25E, Line 60
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.