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PERRY LUKE UNDERWOOD
Petty Officer Third Class · U.S. Navy
May 20, 1946 – June 23, 1969
Service recordPerry Luke Underwood, of Rollingbay, Washington, served as a Petty Officer Third Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on June 23, 1969, in Bien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 21W, Line 4 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 21W · Line 4
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. Navy
- Rank
- Petty Officer Third Class (PO3)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Engineman (EN)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 7 FLT
- Born
- May 20, 1946
- Home of record
- Rollingbay, Washington (Kitsap County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 23, 1969
- Age
- 23
- Province
- Bien Hoa
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
65 names on the Wall carry the date June 23, 1969; four of them were lost in Bien Hoa Province. In June 1969, 1,246 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “7 FLT”, his unit in the record, lost 4 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 21W, Line 4
- TIMOTHY HAYES SIMPKINSPrivate · June 23, 1969
- CHARLES GRIFFIN VICKERSSergeant Major · June 23, 1969
- RICHARD EARL WEISSSpecialist Four · June 23, 1969
- DENNIS MICHAEL WILLIAMSPrivate First Class · June 23, 1969
Same unit, same day
- CHARLES STOCKTON TAYLORLieutenant (junior grade) · Panel 21W, Line 3
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.