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JERRY NORMAN ELLIS
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
February 7, 1948 – July 4, 1968
Service recordJerry Norman Ellis, of White Bear Lake, Minnesota, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on July 4, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 53W, Line 9 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 53W · Line 9
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Assaultman (0351)
- Born
- February 7, 1948
- Home of record
- White Bear Lake, Minnesota (Ramsey County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- July 4, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
41 names on the Wall carry the date July 4, 1968; eight of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In July 1968, 993 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 53W, Line 9
- BERNARD F DUTTON JRLance Corporal · July 4, 1968
- EARL EUGENE FAULKNERSpecialist Four · July 4, 1968
- DENNIS FERNANDEZPrivate First Class · July 4, 1968
- MARSHALL WAYNE FISHERSpecialist Four · July 4, 1968
From White Bear Lake
- JOHN FRANCIS REILLYLance Corporal · December 29, 1966
- JEROME F LEVASSEUR JRFirst Lieutenant · December 19, 1967
- JERROLD PATRICK SMITHPrivate First Class · February 29, 1968
- ALLEN ROBERT MELDAHLPrivate First Class · November 15, 1968
- JAMES FREDERICK UTTERMARKStaff Sergeant · February 23, 1969
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.