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JERRY RUSSELL SANSING
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
December 29, 1946 – August 20, 1968
Service recordJerry Russell Sansing, of Ojus, Florida, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on August 20, 1968, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 47W, Line 12 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 47W · Line 12
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Five (SP5)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Medical Laboratory Specialist (92B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- December 29, 1946
- Home of record
- Ojus, Florida (Dade County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 20, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
44 names on the Wall carry the date August 20, 1968; 11 of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In August 1968, 1,313 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 134 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 47W, Line 12
- DONALD EUGENE RUMMELSpecialist Four · August 20, 1968
- DONALD RAY SIZEMORESergeant · August 20, 1968
- ALBERT DOUGLAS SMITHPrivate First Class · August 20, 1968
- JOSEPH EARNEST SMITHCorporal · August 20, 1968
Same unit, same day
- BOBBY JOHN BYRDPrivate First Class · Panel 47W, Line 6
- GREGORY VERNON CARRSpecialist Four · Panel 47W, Line 6
- JOHN ALEXANDER CONNELLFirst Lieutenant · Panel 47W, Line 7
- FREDDIE LEE COUCHSergeant · Panel 47W, Line 7
- JOAQUIN CHRISTOPHER GONZALEZPrivate First Class · Panel 47W, Line 9
- ROBERT WALLACE LAISCorporal · Panel 47W, Line 10
- FREDDIE KAY MARTINSergeant · Panel 47W, Line 11
- RAYMOND LUNA PEREZSpecialist Four · Panel 47W, Line 11
- DONALD EUGENE RUMMELSpecialist Four · Panel 47W, Line 12
- FREDERICK HOWARD TAPPANSpecialist Four · Panel 47W, Line 13
- CLIFFORD C WALKERSpecialist Four · Panel 47W, Line 13
From Ojus
- JAMES SAMUEL SINGLETARYSpecialist Four · May 8, 1968
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.