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JERRY WILLIAM MOTSINGER
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
March 31, 1943 – June 9, 1968
Service recordJerry William Motsinger, of Kernersville, North Carolina, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on June 9, 1968, in Kien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 58W, Line 11 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 58W · Line 11
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
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- MACV ADVISORS
- Born
- March 31, 1943
- Home of record
- Kernersville, North Carolina (Forsyth County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 9, 1968
- Age
- 25
- Province
- Kien Hoa
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
58 names on the Wall carry the date June 9, 1968; two of them were lost in Kien Hoa Province. In June 1968, 1,257 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 10 of its members that month.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 58W, Line 11
- HARRY PEMBERTON MARTINPrivate First Class · June 9, 1968
- MANUEL FLOYD MARTINEZSergeant · June 9, 1968
- GERALD LEON MILLERPetty Officer Third Class · June 9, 1968
- DARRELL CONDIE MIZNERPrivate First Class · June 9, 1968
Same unit, same day
- JAMES EDWARD PRINGLESergeant · Panel 58W, Line 13
From Kernersville
- WILLIAM REYNOLDSSpecialist Four · March 15, 1969
- JIMMY ROGER WESTMORELANDPrivate First Class · April 8, 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.