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SHERMAN ALVIN FURROW JR
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
August 17, 1945 – October 8, 1968
Service recordSherman Alvin Furrow JR, of Rocky Mount, Virginia, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on October 8, 1968, in Hua Nghia Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 41W, Line 29 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 41W · Line 29
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
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- August 17, 1945
- Home of record
- Rocky Mount, Virginia (Franklin (City) County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 8, 1968
- Age
- 23
- Province
- Hua Nghia
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
27 names on the Wall carry the date October 8, 1968; five of them were lost in Hua Nghia Province. In October 1968, 821 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 32 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 41W, Line 29
- WILLIAM MARION BREES JRHospitalman · October 8, 1968
- WYMAN BYRD COLEMANSpecialist Four · October 8, 1968
- EUGENE HINGLETON JRSpecialist Four · October 8, 1968
- STEVE JOSEPH LEONE PERRYSpecialist Four · October 8, 1968
Same unit, same day
- EUGENE HINGLETON JRSpecialist Four · Panel 41W, Line 29
- LUCAS HERRERA RODRIGUEZPrivate First Class · Panel 41W, Line 31
- ROBERT LEE URBANPrivate First Class · Panel 41W, Line 33
From Rocky Mount
- RICHARD WAYNE PERDUEPrivate First Class · April 5, 1969
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.