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JERRY LEON PETTY
Sergeant · U.S. Army
August 27, 1947 – May 18, 1968
Service recordJerry Leon Petty, of Marshfield, Missouri, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on May 18, 1968, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 62E, Line 22 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 62E · Line 22
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
- Sergeant (SGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Medical Specialist (91B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 11 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- August 27, 1947
- Home of record
- Marshfield, Missouri (Webster County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 18, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Tin
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
59 names on the Wall carry the date May 18, 1968; six of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 11th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 48 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 62E, Line 22
- TOMMY EMERSON GISTMajor · May 18, 1968
- DAVID ESEQUIEL PADILLALance Corporal · May 18, 1968
- HAROLD DOUGLAS PEPPERSPrivate First Class · May 18, 1968
- TIMOTHY JOSEPH RIZZARDINISpecialist Four · May 18, 1968
Same unit, same day
- BENNY JOE LEWISSpecialist Four · Panel 62E, Line 20
From Marshfield
- WILLIAM RAY GOWERCaptain · July 29, 1966
- REX WHEELER HIGHFILLSpecialist Four · February 12, 1967
- ALAN JAMES RUDDELLSpecialist Four · May 26, 1967
- RONALD GENE WHITE SRSpecialist Five · July 2, 1968
- JOHN MARK HANSENSergeant · October 13, 1968
- JACK LAWRENCE BAGLEYFirst Lieutenant · October 27, 1970
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.