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PERRY SHELTON WHISENANT
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
January 19, 1948 – September 9, 1968
Service recordPerry Shelton Whisenant, of Cocoa, Florida, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on September 9, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 44W, Line 11 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 44W · Line 11
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Assaultman (0351)
- Born
- January 19, 1948
- Home of record
- Cocoa, Florida (Brevard County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 9, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
30 names on the Wall carry the date September 9, 1968; 20 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In September 1968, 1,184 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 44W, Line 11
- CLIFFORD DOUGLAS LOGSDONPrivate First Class · September 9, 1968
- NAPOLEON MARTINLance Corporal · September 9, 1968
- GURNEY LEN MILLERLance Corporal · September 9, 1968
- JERRY LAVON MILLERCorporal · September 9, 1968
From Cocoa
- JAMES HENRY BRODTCaptain · May 29, 1963
- WILLIAM L RICHARDSON JRMajor · April 2, 1966
- AUBREY SHAWN BROWNPrivate First Class · March 3, 1967
- GERALD K TAYLORSpecialist Four · November 11, 1967
- WALTER LAWRENCE MATEJECKPrivate First Class · December 4, 1967
- BRENT JOHN TOSHSergeant · February 15, 1968
- LESTER WAYNE COXPrivate First Class · May 9, 1968
- FRANK MARCH JRSpecialist Four · May 22, 1968
- ROBERT EUGENE MACKEYCorporal · September 7, 1968
- MALCOLM ROSCOE TRUE JRPrivate First Class · December 22, 1968
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.