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JERRY WAYNE CORLEY
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
August 24, 1948 – May 7, 1968
Service recordJerry Wayne Corley, of Rosemount, Minnesota, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on May 7, 1968, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 56E, Line 21 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 56E · Line 21
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Assaultman (0351)
- Born
- August 24, 1948
- Home of record
- Rosemount, Minnesota (Dakota County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 7, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
73 names on the Wall carry the date May 7, 1968; 14 of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 56E, Line 21
- JERRY WAYNE CLARKPrivate First Class · May 7, 1968
- AMBROSE WILKIE J CLAY JRSergeant · May 7, 1968
- CHARLES JOSEPH COOKPrivate First Class · May 7, 1968
- PHILIP LEE CULVERSergeant · May 7, 1968
From Rosemount
- KENNETH R SCHROMPrivate First Class · January 8, 1967
- RONALD LEE PANZERSergeant · August 12, 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.