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JERRY LEE SOUTHARD
Corporal · U.S. Army
March 7, 1950 – June 25, 1969
Service recordJerry Lee Southard, of Bellefontaine, Ohio, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Army. He died on June 25, 1969, in Hua Nghia Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 21W, Line 13 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 21W · Line 13
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
- Corporal (CPL)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 82 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- March 7, 1950
- Home of record
- Bellefontaine, Ohio (Logan County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 25, 1969
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Hua Nghia
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
26 names on the Wall carry the date June 25, 1969; he was the only one lost in Hua Nghia Province that day. In June 1969, 1,246 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 82nd Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 6 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 21W, Line 13
- DARNELL HARVEYPrivate First Class · June 25, 1969
- WILLIAM EARL HIBPSHMANSpecialist Five · June 25, 1969
- CARL EMIL JANOWSKY JRSergeant · June 25, 1969
- ROBERT LEE KINGSpecialist Four · June 25, 1969
From Bellefontaine
- HERBERT STEPHEN BECHTELPrivate First Class · August 25, 1966
- ROGER LOUIS PARKERCorporal · January 19, 1967
- JAMES ALLEN EARICKPetty Officer Second Class · July 29, 1967
- FRANK LEE HOGEPrivate First Class · February 17, 1968
- DAVID RICHARD KELLERLance Corporal · June 5, 1968
- ROGER EUGENE SHEPHERDPrivate First Class · November 1, 1968
- JAMES ROBERT GEUYPrivate First Class · July 11, 1969
- LEWIS EUGENE HUGHES IILance Corporal · June 13, 1970
- KENNETH LOVELACEStaff Sergeant · January 22, 1971
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.