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JERRY RAY MURPHY
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
October 21, 1945 – May 4, 1966
Service recordJerry Ray Murphy, of Tujunga, California, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on May 4, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 7E, Line 27 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 7E · Line 27
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Five (SP5)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Utility Helicopter Repairer (67N)
- Born
- October 21, 1945
- Home of record
- Tujunga, California (Los Angeles County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 4, 1966
- Age
- 20
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
34 names on the Wall carry the date May 4, 1966. In May 1966, 595 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 7E, Line 27
- JERRY LANG ONANPrivate First Class · May 4, 1966
- MICHAEL SIMPSONPrivate First Class · May 4, 1966
- JOSEPH J SWAYZEPrivate First Class · May 4, 1966
- ROBERT EUGENE THOMPSONPrivate First Class · May 4, 1966
From Tujunga
- FRED B BECKERMANN JRLance Corporal · July 3, 1966
- MICHAEL DAVID SHEAHANPrivate First Class · February 25, 1968
- JACK DENNIS DOWNSPrivate First Class · April 6, 1968
- MANUEL MIRANDASpecialist Five · June 14, 1971
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.