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JESSE LEE RIDGE
Private First Class · U.S. Army
April 6, 1946 – June 9, 1969
Service recordJesse Lee Ridge, of Park Hill, Oklahoma, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on June 9, 1969, in Gia Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 22W, Line 7 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 22W · Line 7
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
- Field Artillery Basic (13A)
- Unit (as recorded)
- A BTRY 7 BN 11 ARTY 25 INF DIV
- Born
- April 6, 1946
- Home of record
- Park Hill, Oklahoma (Cherokee County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 9, 1969
- Age
- 23
- Province
- Gia Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Illness
- Circumstance
- Infectious Disease
Context · from the records
What was happening
73 names on the Wall carry the date June 9, 1969; he was the only one lost in Gia Dinh Province that day. In June 1969, 1,246 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 22W, Line 7
- TERRY GENE RADASergeant · June 9, 1969
- CHRISTOPHER RAY REEDCorporal · June 9, 1969
- KARL ANDREW SCHOFERSpecialist Four · June 9, 1969
- LARRY EUGENE SCOTTSpecialist Four · June 9, 1969
From Park Hill
- WESLEY GREENCaptain · December 3, 1967
- DONALD LOUIS DUNNMaster Sergeant · February 11, 1971
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.