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KENT MARTIN ZERR
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
September 1, 1944 – March 6, 1970
Service recordKent Martin Zerr, of Sinking Spring, Pennsylvania, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on March 6, 1970, in Binh Long Province, South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 13W, Line 90 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 13W · Line 90
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Five (SP5)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Ah-1 Attack Helicopter Repairer (67Y)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
- Born
- September 1, 1944
- Home of record
- Sinking Spring, Pennsylvania (Berks County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 6, 1970
- Age
- 25
- Province
- Binh Long
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
19 names on the Wall carry the date March 6, 1970; he was the only one lost in Binh Long Province that day. In March 1970, 625 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 78 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 13W, Line 90
- ROBERT LEWIS WEBSTERPrivate First Class · March 6, 1970
- CHARLES WHATLEYSpecialist Four · March 6, 1970
- JEFFREY LYNN WILSONLance Corporal · March 6, 1970
- PAUL VERNON ADAMSSergeant · March 7, 1970
Same unit, same day
- FRANCIS LOUIS WARE IIICorporal · Panel 13W, Line 89
From Sinking Spring
- LARRY LEE KEENERCorporal · February 24, 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.