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PHILLIP K ROSS
First Sergeant · U.S. Army
March 22, 1934 – March 4, 1968
Service recordPhillip K Ross, of Greensboro, North Carolina, served as a First Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on March 4, 1968, in Binh Thuy Province, South Vietnam, at age 33. His name is inscribed on Panel 42E, Line 69 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 42E · Line 69
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- First Sergeant (1SG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Field Artillery Senior Sergeant (13Z)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- March 22, 1934
- Home of record
- Greensboro, North Carolina (Guilford County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 4, 1968
- Age
- 33
- Province
- Binh Thuy
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
75 names on the Wall carry the date March 4, 1968; he was the only one lost in Binh Thuy Province that day. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 208 of its members that month.
He died in Binh Thuy Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 42E, Line 69
- DENNIS HOWARD MUTZLance Corporal · March 4, 1968
- PATRICK FRANCIS OKEEFECorporal · March 4, 1968
- FRANK ALLEN OSTERPrivate First Class · March 4, 1968
- GARY CONVERS PARKINSONHospitalman · March 4, 1968
Same unit, same day
- ANTHONY ERICH REEDSergeant · Panel 42E, Line 70
From Greensboro
- GLENN CHARLES DYERFirst Lieutenant · October 26, 1964
- THOMAS MONROE CROWPrivate First Class · August 24, 1965
- ALVIN C SLIGHPrivate First Class · November 6, 1965
- GENTRY GRAHAMSpecialist Four · February 24, 1966
- JAMES HAMPTON EDGESpecialist Four · March 5, 1966
- ROGER WARDELL JENKINSPrivate First Class · April 30, 1966
- RONALD CRAIG LOVETTPrivate First Class · June 12, 1966
- JAMES SHREVE HALLChief Master Sergeant · July 29, 1966
- CHESTER DECATUR FEWELLPrivate First Class · January 9, 1967
- BILLY WAYNE FLYNNSecond Lieutenant · January 23, 1967
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.