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JERRY WAYNE TALLEY
Private First Class · U.S. Army
April 18, 1943 – January 25, 1969
Service recordJerry Wayne Talley, of Corinth, Mississippi, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on January 25, 1969, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 34W, Line 80 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 34W · Line 80
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. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 11 ARMORED CAV
- Born
- April 18, 1943
- Home of record
- Corinth, Mississippi (Alcorn County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 25, 1969
- Age
- 25
- Province
- Binh Duong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
39 names on the Wall carry the date January 25, 1969; seven of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In January 1969, 985 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “11 ARMORED CAV”, his unit in the record, lost 11 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 34W, Line 80
- JOSEPH MICHAEL SCHMOLKEPrivate First Class · January 25, 1969
- FRANK DONALD SMITHERMANPrivate First Class · January 25, 1969
- ROGER LEE VICKERSFirst Lieutenant · January 25, 1969
- JON FREDERICK WARMBRODTSecond Lieutenant · January 25, 1969
From Corinth
- BOBBY HUDSONSpecialist Four · December 10, 1966
- CLYDE RAYMOND PHILLIPSStaff Sergeant · January 8, 1968
- PRINCE ARTHUR JOHNSON JRPrivate First Class · January 30, 1968
- LARRY FRANKLIN NEWCOMBSpecialist Four · January 31, 1968
- GARY KENNETH LANNOMPrivate First Class · February 26, 1968
- HERSHEL EUGENE MORROWPrivate First Class · September 6, 1968
- GERHARD W C VANDERFORDSpecialist Four · January 3, 1969
- WEYMAN TERRY COOKSpecialist Four · March 6, 1969
- TROY LEE WALKERPrivate First Class · September 3, 1969
- DOUGLAS EVERETT BYRDSpecialist Four · October 8, 1970
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.