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TERRY LEE ARMSTRONG
Private First Class · U.S. Army
August 22, 1948 – November 2, 1968
Service recordTerry Lee Armstrong, of Sherman, Mississippi, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on November 2, 1968, in Pleiku Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 39W, Line 7 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 39W · Line 7
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 4 INF DIV
- Born
- August 22, 1948
- Home of record
- Sherman, Mississippi (Pontotoc County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 2, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Pleiku
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
23 names on the Wall carry the date November 2, 1968; two of them were lost in Pleiku Province. In November 1968, 918 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 4th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 33 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 39W, Line 7
- REFUGIO CANALESSpecialist Four · November 2, 1968
- RALPH R CARPENTER JRSpecialist Four · November 2, 1968
- EUGENE THOMAS DALY JRSergeant · November 2, 1968
- JAMES EDGAR DUNKIN JRSergeant First Class · November 2, 1968
Same unit, same day
- RALPH R CARPENTER JRSpecialist Four · Panel 39W, Line 7
- EUGENE THOMAS DALY JRSergeant · Panel 39W, Line 7
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.