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TERRY L HARPER
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
December 4, 1944 – March 21, 1966
Service recordTerry L Harper, of Richmond, Virginia, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on March 21, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 6E, Line 32 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 6E · Line 32
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Multichannel Transmission Systems (31M)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 INF DIV
- Born
- December 4, 1944
- Home of record
- Richmond, Virginia (Richmond (City) County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 21, 1966
- Age
- 21
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Died of other causes
Context · from the records
What was happening
48 names on the Wall carry the date March 21, 1966. In March 1966, 564 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 66 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 6E, Line 32
- ROGER LEO HENDERSONPrivate First Class · March 21, 1966
- MANUEL HERRERAPrivate First Class · March 21, 1966
- JOHN LOUIS HUNTERSergeant · March 21, 1966
- BENITO IGARTA JRGunnery Sergeant · March 21, 1966
Same unit, same day
- ROY RANSOM ALLENPrivate First Class · Panel 6E, Line 27
From Richmond
- WALTER PRESTON GORHAMMajor · March 16, 1963
- RICHARD SHERWIN JOHNSONCaptain · January 17, 1965
- ROBERT LEE SIMON JRSpecialist Four · February 10, 1965
- ROBERT WILLIAM DOSSAirman First Class · April 27, 1965
- CHARLES ARTHUR JENKINSLance Corporal · June 25, 1965
- JAMES HOLMES THORNTONPrivate First Class · November 3, 1965
- SAMUEL STANLEY TOLLIVERPrivate First Class · November 8, 1965
- MARYLAND CHATTENPrivate · December 24, 1965
- CURTIS J MCGEEStaff Sergeant · February 28, 1966
- MICHAEL GARY MURRAYLance Corporal · March 21, 1966
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.