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ORAL RAY TERRY
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
January 27, 1945 – May 3, 1968
Service recordOral Ray Terry, of Mascoutah, Illinois, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He was lost on May 3, 1968, in Dinh Tuong Province, South Vietnam, and was later declared dead. His name is inscribed on Panel 54E, Line 30 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 54E · Line 30
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
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Watercraft Operator (61B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 LOGISTIC CMD
- Born
- January 27, 1945
- Home of record
- Mascoutah, Illinois (St Clair County)
Casualty
- Date of loss
- May 3, 1968
- Province
- Dinh Tuong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Presumed Dead
- Circumstance
- Unknown
- First reported
- Missing
- Remains
- Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record
Context · from the records
What was happening
39 names on the Wall carry the date May 3, 1968; he was the only one lost in Định Tường Province that day. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “1 LOGISTIC CMD”, his unit in the record, lost 41 of its members that month.
His remains had not been recovered when the 2008 record was compiled. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency continues to search for Americans still missing from the war; families can find case information through dpaa.mil.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 54E, Line 30
- FRED PATRICK STAFFORDPrivate First Class · May 3, 1968
- RONALD CARLIS ANDERSONPrivate First Class · May 4, 1968
- STERLING CLARK BANKSSpecialist Four · May 4, 1968
- SAMUEL HAROLD BONIFANTStaff Sergeant · May 4, 1968
Same unit, same day
- OLIVER ANDERSONSergeant First Class · Panel 54E, Line 22
From Mascoutah
- GERALD WILLIAM SIEBELieutenant (junior grade) · October 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.