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JERRY LEON WAGES
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
January 1, 1949 – October 24, 1969
Service recordJerry Leon Wages, of Atlanta, Georgia, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on October 24, 1969, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 17W, Line 115 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 17W · Line 115
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
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
- Born
- January 1, 1949
- Home of record
- Atlanta, Georgia (Fulton County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 24, 1969
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
23 names on the Wall carry the date October 24, 1969; three of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In October 1969, 600 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 63 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 17W, Line 115
- THOMAS DAVID TOMASZEWSKICorporal · October 24, 1969
- ALBERT ORLANDO WAYMAN JRPrivate First Class · October 24, 1969
- MELVIN MASAICHI YAMASHITASergeant · October 24, 1969
- JOSEPH VINCENT WHELANCaptain · October 25, 1969
Same unit, same day
- GARY WILLIAM BRUHNPrivate First Class · Panel 17W, Line 111
- JOHN THOMAS DEMARCHESSergeant First Class · Panel 17W, Line 112
From Atlanta
- DAVID NIPPERLance Corporal · November 21, 1964
- JAMES ANTHONY COYAirman First Class · June 11, 1965
- JAMES THARPE BROWN JRPrivate First Class · June 25, 1965
- WESLIE DAVID MEWBORNPetty Officer First Class · September 8, 1964
- DOUGLAS HORACE LEACHSpecialist Four · November 15, 1965
- RONNIE THOMAS MATHISSergeant · November 17, 1965
- GEORGE S MCHELLONSpecialist Four · November 17, 1965
- JAMES CARL WISE JRMajor · December 23, 1965
- CLIFFORD THOMAS JOHNSONPrivate · January 29, 1966
- HARVEY LEWIS BOWEN JRPrivate First Class · February 24, 1966
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.