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JESSE ALEXANDER GRAY
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
August 10, 1930 – June 12, 1964
Service recordJesse Alexander Gray, of Memphis, Tennessee, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on June 12, 1964, in South Vietnam, at age 33. His name is inscribed on Panel 1E, Line 54 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 1E · Line 54
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Sergeant First Class (SFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantry Operations And Intelligence Specialist (11F)
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- August 10, 1930
- Home of record
- Memphis, Tennessee (Shelby County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 12, 1964
- Age
- 33
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
One name on the Wall carry the date June 12, 1964. In June 1964, 18 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 4 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 1E, Line 54
- ROBERT LEE GREERStaff Sergeant · June 7, 1964
- FRED THOMAS SCHRECKENGOSTStaff Sergeant · June 7, 1964
- THOMAS ISAAC LEDBETTERCaptain · June 19, 1964
- HARRY ALLEN WALLINGSergeant · June 19, 1964
From Memphis
- ANDREW DAYTON PARKER JRMajor · June 18, 1965
- JOHN CARLOS HARRISSergeant · July 21, 1965
- WALTER LEWIS SMITHPrivate First Class · August 19, 1965
- CLAUDE TALBERT JRPrivate First Class · October 8, 1965
- WILLIAM CLYDE HARPERSergeant · October 10, 1965
- DANIEL DAVID HARDENSergeant · November 1, 1965
- RANDLE TOM WOODSLance Corporal · November 6, 1965
- KELLY EUGENE WHITAKERPrivate First Class · November 8, 1965
- MELVIN FRANK FORTSpecialist Four · November 17, 1965
- JERRY ALLAN HIEMERSpecialist Four · November 17, 1965
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.