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PERCY GUY BROCK JR
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
August 6, 1937 – June 29, 1972
Service recordPercy Guy Brock JR, of Kosciusko, Mississippi, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on June 29, 1972, in Cambodia, at age 34. His name is inscribed on Panel 1W, Line 51 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 1W · Line 51
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Sergeant First Class (SFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Tactical Communitions Chief (31G)
- Unit (as recorded)
- MACV ADVISORS
- Born
- August 6, 1937
- Home of record
- Kosciusko, Mississippi (Attala County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 29, 1972
- Age
- 34
- Country
- Cambodia
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Vehicle Crash (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
Two names on the Wall carry the date June 29, 1972. In June 1972, 88 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 14 of its members that month.
The record places this loss in Cambodia, outside South Vietnam.
Also on Panel 1W, Line 51
- STEVEN LOGAN BENNETTCaptain · June 29, 1972
- STEPHEN MARK WHITESpecialist Five · June 30, 1972
- JOHN MICHAEL COLEFirst Lieutenant · July 2, 1972
- ROGER MYERS SMELSERPetty Officer Third Class · July 2, 1972
From Kosciusko
- BOBBY RAY MCKINNONPrivate First Class · January 7, 1968
- DWIGHT HODGESPrivate First Class · December 23, 1968
- FRANKLIN ZOLLICOFFERSpecialist Four · April 24, 1972
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.