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A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967.
A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967. Photo: SP5 Robert C. Lafoon, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Terrence Colin Sullivan.

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TERRENCE COLIN SULLIVAN

Private First Class · U.S. Army

April 8, 1947 – May 20, 1967

Service record

Terrence Colin Sullivan, of Berlin, New Hampshire, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on May 20, 1967, in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 20E, Line 69 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 20E · Line 69

Position of Panel 20E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
Unit (as recorded)
101 AIRBORNE DIV
Born
April 8, 1947
Home of record
Berlin, New Hampshire (Coos County)

Casualty

Date of death
May 20, 1967
Age
20
Province
Quang Ngai
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Died of Wounds
Circumstance
Grenade

Context · from the records

What was happening

91 names on the Wall carry the date May 20, 1967; 13 of them were lost in Quảng Ngãi Province. In May 1967, 1,396 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 64 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 20E, Line 69

From Berlin

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.