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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Randall Earl Perry.

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RANDALL EARL PERRY

Corporal · U.S. Army

August 2, 1949 – January 24, 1970

Service record

Randall Earl Perry, of Dayton, Tennessee, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Army. He died on January 24, 1970, in Long Khanh Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 14W, Line 63 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 14W · Line 63

Position of Panel 14W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Corporal (CPL)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
199 LIGHT INF BDE
Born
August 2, 1949
Home of record
Dayton, Tennessee (Rhea County)

Casualty

Date of death
January 24, 1970
Age
20
Province
Long Khanh
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

11 names on the Wall carry the date January 24, 1970; three of them were lost in Long Khanh Province. In January 1970, 529 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 199th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 27 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 14W, Line 63

Same unit, same day

From Dayton

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.