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TERRY GENE GRAFT
Lance Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps
June 23, 1950 – August 31, 1969
Service recordTerry Gene Graft, of Roanoke, Indiana, served as a Lance Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on August 31, 1969, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 18W, Line 15 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 18W · Line 15
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
- Lance Corporal (LCPL)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Motor Vehicle Operator (3531)
- Born
- June 23, 1950
- Home of record
- Roanoke, Indiana (Huntington County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 31, 1969
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
25 names on the Wall carry the date August 31, 1969; five of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In August 1969, 962 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 18W, Line 15
- RICHARD WILLIAM HOFFLERPrivate First Class · August 31, 1969
- RALPH MICHAEL HOOKSCorporal · August 31, 1969
- EUGENE HUNTCorporal · August 31, 1969
- RONALD JOHANSENPrivate · August 31, 1969
From Roanoke
- THOMAS DUANE WORRELLance Corporal · April 23, 1970
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.