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RAY LAVERN SHARP
Petty Officer Second Class · U.S. Navy
October 20, 1938 – January 21, 1969
Service recordRay Lavern Sharp, of Ridgeway, Michigan, served as a Petty Officer Second Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on January 21, 1969, in Bien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 30. His name is inscribed on Panel 34W, Line 53 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 34W · Line 53
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 Second Class (PO2)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Commissaryman (CS)
- Unit (as recorded)
- USS TOM GREEN COUNTY LST 1159
- Born
- October 20, 1938
- Home of record
- Ridgeway, Michigan (Lenawee County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 21, 1969
- Age
- 30
- Province
- Bien Hoa
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
44 names on the Wall carry the date January 21, 1969; four of them were lost in Bien Hoa Province. In January 1969, 985 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “USS TOM GREEN COUNTY LST 1159”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 34W, Line 53
- ANTONIO REYESSergeant · January 21, 1969
- THOMAS VERNON RHOADSPrivate First Class · January 21, 1969
- MARIANO RIBILLIA JRPrivate First Class · January 21, 1969
- ERNEST EUGENE RITCHChief Petty Officer · January 21, 1969
Same unit, same day
- RAYMOND JOSEPH KREKELBERGSeaman · Panel 34W, Line 49
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.