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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Jerry Leon Antrich.

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JERRY LEON ANTRICH

Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army

June 22, 1930 – August 10, 1969

Service record

Jerry Leon Antrich, of Houston, Texas, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on August 10, 1969, at age 39. His name is inscribed on Panel 29E, Line 9 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 29E · Line 9

Position of Panel 29E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Staff Sergeant (SSG)
Born
June 22, 1930
Home of record
Houston, Texas

Casualty

Date of death
August 10, 1969
Age
39
Added to the Wall
2014

Context · from the records

What was happening

41 names on the Wall carry the date August 10, 1969. In August 1969, 962 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 29E, Line 9

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Source. This name was added to the Wall in 2014, after the 2008 Department of Defense casualty file used for most of this site was compiled. Panel, line and the details above are as listed for this name on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund’s Wall of Faces. This page presents the official record and its historical context; no biography has been written for him yet. See something wrong? Report a correction.