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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Terry Alan Hendricks.

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TERRY ALAN HENDRICKS

First Lieutenant · U.S. Army

June 27, 1945 – November 7, 1967

Service record

Terry Alan Hendricks, of San Bernardino, California, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on November 7, 1967, in Binh Long Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 29E, Line 40 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 29E · Line 40

Position of Panel 29E 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
First Lieutenant (1LT)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Occupation
Field Artillery Unit Commander (1193)
Unit (as recorded)
1 INF DIV
Born
June 27, 1945
Home of record
San Bernardino, California (San Bernardino County)

Casualty

Date of death
November 7, 1967
Age
22
Province
Binh Long
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Grenade

Context · from the records

What was happening

45 names on the Wall carry the date November 7, 1967; 18 of them were lost in Binh Long Province. In November 1967, 1,133 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 54 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 29E, Line 40

Same unit, same day

From San Bernardino

All 53 names from San Bernardino →

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.