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REX LEWIS PARCELS JR
Lieutenant (junior grade) · U.S. Navy
January 16, 1945 – March 9, 1970
Service recordRex Lewis Parcels JR, of Berkeley, California, served as a Lieutenant (junior grade) in the U.S. Navy. He died on March 9, 1970, in North Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 13W, Line 100 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 13W · Line 100
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Navy
- Rank
- Lieutenant (junior grade) (LTJG)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Url Pilot (1325)
- Unit (as recorded)
- VF-21 USS RANGER CVA 61
- Born
- January 16, 1945
- Home of record
- Berkeley, California (Alameda County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 9, 1970
- Age
- 25
- Country
- North Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Aircraft Crash — crew
- Remains
- Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record
Context · from the records
What was happening
18 names on the Wall carry the date March 9, 1970. In March 1970, 625 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “VF-21 USS RANGER CVA 61”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
The record places this loss in North Vietnam, outside South Vietnam — most often the sign of an air crew lost over the North or the Ho Chi Minh Trail.
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.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 13W, Line 100
- WILLIAM JOSEPH FRANCISPrivate First Class · March 9, 1970
- ENCARNACION LEDESMAPrivate First Class · March 9, 1970
- MICHAEL JOSEPH MCCARRONSpecialist Four · March 9, 1970
- HAL EDWARD PERRYChief Warrant Officer 2 · March 9, 1970
Same unit, same day
- LEONARD JOHN SCHOEPPNERLieutenant · Panel 13W, Line 101
From Berkeley
- ZOLTAN ALAJOS KOVACSWarrant Officer 1 · June 10, 1965
- DONALD HUBERT BROWN JRLieutenant (junior grade) · August 12, 1965
- WINFIELD WADE SISSONColonel · October 18, 1965
- PHILIP MICHAEL CALLANPrivate First Class · October 4, 1966
- KENNETH ROBBINS CAMERONCaptain · May 18, 1967
- MICHAEL JAMES HARECorporal · June 17, 1967
- CHARLES RICHARD MULLAN JRHospitalman · June 28, 1967
- DONALD LEROY GASSERPrivate First Class · August 29, 1967
- ALLEN HIDEO HARANOPrivate First Class · February 6, 1968
- JAMES OSCAR WESTPrivate First Class · March 31, 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.