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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault.
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Terrance Lee Brock.

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TERRANCE LEE BROCK

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

August 21, 1946 – January 4, 1969

Service record

Terrance Lee Brock, of Cape Girardeau, Missouri, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on January 4, 1969, in Pleiku Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 35W, Line 33 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 35W · Line 33

Position of Panel 35W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Armor Crewman (11E)
Unit (as recorded)
4 INF DIV
Born
August 21, 1946
Home of record
Cape Girardeau, Missouri (Cape Girardeau County)

Casualty

Date of death
January 4, 1969
Age
22
Province
Pleiku
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Other Accident

Context · from the records

What was happening

26 names on the Wall carry the date January 4, 1969; two of them were lost in Pleiku Province. In January 1969, 985 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 4th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 43 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 35W, Line 33

Same unit, same day

From Cape Girardeau

All 12 names from Cape Girardeau →

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.