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JERRY WAYNE HESKETT
Sergeant · U.S. Marine Corps
April 4, 1948 – May 22, 1969
Service recordJerry Wayne Heskett, of Coshocton, Ohio, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on May 22, 1969, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 24W, Line 75 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 24W · Line 75
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
- Sergeant (SGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Field Radio Operator (2531)
- Born
- April 4, 1948
- Home of record
- Coshocton, Ohio (Coshocton County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 22, 1969
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Vehicle Crash (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
36 names on the Wall carry the date May 22, 1969; four of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In May 1969, 1,456 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 24W, Line 75
- JOHNNY MANUEL CRUZSpecialist Four · May 22, 1969
- DAVID JAMES EWINGSpecialist Five · May 22, 1969
- ULYSSES C HASSELLSpecialist Four · May 22, 1969
- CHARLES ALEXANDER JONESSergeant First Class · May 22, 1969
From Coshocton
- CHARLES KEITH WRIGHTSpecialist Four · June 21, 1966
- ROBERT ORAL KORNSMaster Sergeant · October 2, 1966
- CHESTER ANTON WRIGHTSpecialist Four · August 2, 1968
- MICHAEL SHANE CALEYCorporal · August 24, 1968
- DOUGLAS SCOTT KEMPFSpecialist Four · September 5, 1969
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.