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A Navy corpsman treats a wounded Marine of H Company, 2nd Battalion, 5th Marines, in Huế, February 1968.
A Navy corpsman treats a wounded Marine of H Company, 2nd Battalion, 5th Marines, in Huế, February 1968. Photo: Sgt. William F. Dickman, USMC, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Jerry Timothy Suter.

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JERRY TIMOTHY SUTER

Petty Officer Third Class · U.S. Navy

February 26, 1945 – September 15, 1966

Service record

Jerry Timothy Suter, of Mesa, Arizona, served as a Petty Officer Third Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on September 15, 1966, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 10E, Line 98 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 10E · Line 98

Position of Panel 10E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Navy
Rank
Petty Officer Third Class (PO3)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Hospital Corpsman (HM)
Born
February 26, 1945
Home of record
Mesa, Arizona (Maricopa County)

Casualty

Date of death
September 15, 1966
Age
21
Province
Quang Tin
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Explosive Device

Context · from the records

What was happening

14 names on the Wall carry the date September 15, 1966; six of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In September 1966, 533 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 10E, Line 98

From Mesa

All 23 names from Mesa →

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.