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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault.
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Terry Lee Grube.

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TERRY LEE GRUBE

Private First Class · U.S. Army

June 11, 1946 – October 27, 1966

Service record

Terry Lee Grube, of Ft Wayne, Indiana, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on October 27, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 11E, Line 118 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 11E · Line 118

Position of Panel 11E 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
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
4 INF DIV
Born
June 11, 1946
Home of record
Ft Wayne, Indiana (Allen County)

Casualty

Date of death
October 27, 1966
Age
20
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Unknown

Context · from the records

What was happening

16 names on the Wall carry the date October 27, 1966. In October 1966, 516 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 4th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 15 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 11E, Line 118

From Ft Wayne

All 65 names from Ft Wayne →

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.