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JERRY SCRUGGS BAKER
Private First Class · U.S. Army
November 28, 1947 – March 9, 1968
Service recordJerry Scruggs Baker, of Altoona, Alabama, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on March 9, 1968, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 43E, Line 65 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 43E · Line 65
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 196 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- November 28, 1947
- Home of record
- Altoona, Alabama (Etowah County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 9, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Tin
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
45 names on the Wall carry the date March 9, 1968; three of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 196th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 13 of its members that month.
He died in Quảng Tín Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Also on Panel 43E, Line 65
- JAMES RONALD BATEMANPrivate First Class · March 9, 1968
- WILLIAM HENRY BECKWITHMajor · March 9, 1968
- WILLIE B BRADFORDSpecialist Four · March 9, 1968
- JOHNNY RAY BURTONSpecialist Four · March 9, 1968
Same unit, same day
- JOHNNY RAY BURTONSpecialist Four · Panel 43E, Line 65
From Altoona
- JAMES DAVID SMITHSergeant · November 15, 1965
- LARRY WAYNE GREERPrivate First Class · April 21, 1967
- JOE HARRY STANLEYSergeant · November 21, 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.