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An airman lights a candle during POW/MIA recognition week at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, North Carolina.
An airman lights a candle during POW/MIA recognition week at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, North Carolina. Photo: A1C Aaron Jenne, U.S. Air Force, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Philip Bradford Terrill.

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PHILIP BRADFORD TERRILL

Specialist Five · U.S. Army

September 24, 1947 – March 31, 1971

Service record

Philip Bradford Terrill, of New Hartford, New York, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He was lost on March 31, 1971, in Kontum Province, South Vietnam, and was later declared dead. His name is inscribed on Panel 4W, Line 98 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 4W · Line 98

Position of Panel 4W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Specialist Five (SP5)
Service
Regular
Occupation
General Vehicle Repairman (63C)
Unit (as recorded)
1 BN 92 ARTY 1 FFV
Born
September 24, 1947
Home of record
New Hartford, New York (Oneida County)

Casualty

Date of loss
March 31, 1971
Province
Kontum
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Declared Dead
Circumstance
Unknown
First reported
Captured / prisoner of war
Remains
Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record

Context · from the records

What was happening

14 names on the Wall carry the date March 31, 1971; five of them were lost in Kon Tum Province. In March 1971, 429 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

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.

Also on Panel 4W, Line 98

From New Hartford

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.