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JERRY RAY LANGLEY
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
May 18, 1949 – May 2, 1969
Service recordJerry Ray Langley, of Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on May 2, 1969, in Gia Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 26W, Line 100 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 26W · Line 100
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
- Light Wheel Vehicle Mechanic (63B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 LOGISTIC CMD
- Born
- May 18, 1949
- Home of record
- Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania (Cumberland County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 2, 1969
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Gia Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
46 names on the Wall carry the date May 2, 1969; he was the only one lost in Gia Dinh Province that day. In May 1969, 1,456 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “1 LOGISTIC CMD”, his unit in the record, lost 20 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 26W, Line 100
- WILLIAM A MANSERGH JRSpecialist Four · May 2, 1969
- PHILLIP LOUIS MASCARIMajor · May 2, 1969
- JERRY ROGER MEADOWSSergeant · May 2, 1969
- EDWARD CLAUS POWERSFirst Lieutenant · May 2, 1969
Same unit, same day
- RODNEY JOE BLACKSpecialist Five · Panel 26W, Line 96
- DANIEL CARRASCOSpecialist Five · Panel 26W, Line 97
From Mechanicsburg
- WILLIAM ALLEN GLEIXNERSpecialist Four · February 22, 1968
- THOMAS THOMAS SPRINKLESpecialist Four · July 7, 1968
- PAUL EARL FOUGHT JRPrivate First Class · October 20, 1968
- JOSEPH JOHN MEYER JRPrivate First Class · July 4, 1969
- WILLIAM HENRY MORRIS JRCaptain · October 9, 1969
- WAYNE LEROY YINGER JRCorporal · May 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.