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SAMMY LEE SCOTT
Private First Class · U.S. Army
July 29, 1947 – May 22, 1968
Service recordSammy Lee Scott, of Peytonsburg, Kentucky, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on May 22, 1968, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 66E, Line 2 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 66E · Line 2
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. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 INF DIV
- Born
- July 29, 1947
- Home of record
- Peytonsburg, Kentucky (Cumberland County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 22, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Binh Duong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
73 names on the Wall carry the date May 22, 1968; 11 of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 103 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 66E, Line 2
- CLAIR F RITCHEY JRCorporal · May 22, 1968
- LARRY JUNIOR SAMPLESCorporal · May 22, 1968
- ANGEL LUIS SANCHEZPrivate First Class · May 22, 1968
- KENNETH CHARLES SHEMORYLance Corporal · May 22, 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.