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SETH LEE WEST JR
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Marine Corps
December 8, 1943 – April 16, 1968
Service recordSeth Lee West JR, of Kinston, North Carolina, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on April 16, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 50E, Line 24 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 50E · Line 24
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
- Staff Sergeant (SSGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantry Unit Leader (0369)
- Born
- December 8, 1943
- Home of record
- Kinston, North Carolina (Lenoir County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 16, 1968
- Age
- 24
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
74 names on the Wall carry the date April 16, 1968; 50 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 50E, Line 24
- JERRY ALAN SWEETPrivate First Class · April 16, 1968
- WILMER DWAYNE WILSONHospitalman · April 16, 1968
- ROBERT WRIGHTCorporal · April 16, 1968
- WILLIAM WAYNE WYMERPrivate First Class · April 16, 1968
From Kinston
- JIMMIE LLOYD MCBYNUMStaff Sergeant · October 22, 1965
- CHARLES CURTIS WHITFIELDPrivate · February 24, 1966
- WOODROW WILSON HAM JRStaff Sergeant · March 4, 1966
- DANIEL H LAWLERSpecialist Five · May 20, 1967
- CURTIS RAY MCLAWHORNSergeant · July 22, 1967
- BOBBY LEE BARBERPrivate First Class · November 2, 1967
- CARL LEE HILL JRSpecialist Four · April 4, 1968
- JOHNNY MILLERSpecialist Four · May 2, 1968
- DEMPSEY WOODROW PARROTTSpecialist Four · May 4, 1968
- VERNELL HENRY MILLER JRPrivate First Class · May 27, 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.