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JESSIE ROY LEWIS
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
December 12, 1950 – July 16, 1969
Service recordJessie Roy Lewis, of Wichita, Kansas, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on July 16, 1969, in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 20W, Line 7 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 20W · 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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Mortarman (0341)
- Born
- December 12, 1950
- Home of record
- Wichita, Kansas (Sedgwick County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- July 16, 1969
- Age
- 18
- Province
- Quang Ngai
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
25 names on the Wall carry the date July 16, 1969; five of them were lost in Quảng Ngãi Province. In July 1969, 834 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 20W, Line 7
- DARRELL VON HURTSpecialist Four · July 16, 1969
- JOHNNY LEE KIDDSpecialist Four · July 16, 1969
- RONALD IRVING KIRKPATRICKSpecialist Four · July 16, 1969
- RODGER DENNIS MCELHANEYPrivate First Class · July 16, 1969
From Wichita
- RICHARD DEAN SMITHLieutenant Colonel · March 11, 1965
- GARY LYNN DICKEYLance Corporal · July 23, 1965
- LOUIS DON ROYSTON JRPrivate First Class · September 1, 1965
- REBEL LEE HOLCOMBSergeant · November 8, 1965
- HENRY GENTRY JRPrivate First Class · December 5, 1965
- DANIEL ALBERT DICKINSONSpecialist Four · December 6, 1965
- DONALD DEAN KARLINCorporal · December 18, 1965
- CHARLES RONALD GURTLERLance Corporal · April 21, 1966
- ROBERT GARY MALONECorporal · July 28, 1966
- JAMES EDWARD REIDPrivate First Class · August 26, 1966
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.