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Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969.
Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969. Photo: U.S. Marine Corps, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of John Christian Lerch JR.

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JOHN CHRISTIAN LERCH JR

Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps

December 5, 1948 – November 25, 1967

Service record

John Christian Lerch JR, of Taberg, New York, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on November 25, 1967, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 30E, Line 85 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 30E · Line 85

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Service

Branch
U.S. Marine Corps
Rank
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Rifleman (0311)
Born
December 5, 1948
Home of record
Taberg, New York (Oneida County)

Casualty

Date of death
November 25, 1967
Age
18
Province
Quang Tri
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

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21 names on the Wall carry the date November 25, 1967; two of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In November 1967, 1,133 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

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Also on Panel 30E, Line 85

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.