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SANDY LEE ROSS
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
January 17, 1944 – January 11, 1967
Service recordSandy Lee Ross, of Macon, Georgia, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on January 11, 1967, offshore, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 14E, Line 11 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 14E · Line 11
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
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Shore Party Specialist (1381)
- Born
- January 17, 1944
- Home of record
- Macon, Georgia (Bibb County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 11, 1967
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Offshore
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
24 names on the Wall carry the date January 11, 1967. In January 1967, 638 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 14E, Line 11
- FELIX MANUEL LOPEZ-AGOSTOSpecialist Four · January 11, 1967
- ALAN RANDAL MOORELance Corporal · January 11, 1967
- ROGER DALE POLLEYPrivate First Class · January 11, 1967
- PATRICK LEE WOODLance Corporal · January 11, 1967
From Macon
- EDDIE BROWN JRPrivate First Class · November 16, 1965
- RALPH LEON HINSONStaff Sergeant · December 17, 1965
- HAZE HOWARD IIISpecialist Four · July 3, 1966
- JIMMY ALVIN JOHNSONSergeant · September 23, 1966
- WAYNE THAD STRICKLANDCorporal · September 24, 1966
- WILLIAM SHERWOOD COCHRANPrivate First Class · November 6, 1966
- RALLS HAWKINSPrivate First Class · November 21, 1966
- WILLIS LEE FURNEYSergeant · March 9, 1967
- FRANKLIN DWIGHT RUISPrivate First Class · March 19, 1967
- DON CURTIS BENFIELDPrivate · April 8, 1967
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.