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RAY WILLIARD PHELPS JR
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
January 9, 1947 – October 10, 1968
Service recordRay Williard Phelps JR, of Yuma, Tennessee, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on October 10, 1968, in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 41W, Line 42 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 41W · Line 42
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
- Field Artillery Cannoneer (0811)
- Born
- January 9, 1947
- Home of record
- Yuma, Tennessee (Carroll County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 10, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Quang Ngai
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
31 names on the Wall carry the date October 10, 1968; six of them were lost in Quảng Ngãi Province. In October 1968, 821 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 41W, Line 42
- EMMETT SOMERS ORRTechnical Sergeant · October 10, 1968
- LOUIS JOSEPH RAMIREZSpecialist Four · October 10, 1968
- ANGEL LUIS RAMOSPrivate First Class · October 10, 1968
- MICHAEL EUGENE RANDALL SRCorporal · October 10, 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.