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UH-1 helicopters of the 1st Cavalry Division skim the coastline near Chu Lai, October 1967.
UH-1 helicopters of the 1st Cavalry Division skim the coastline near Chu Lai, October 1967. Photo: PFC Franklin G. Nickerson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Terry Lee Ivener.

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TERRY LEE IVENER

Private First Class · U.S. Army

November 6, 1941 – June 11, 1968

Service record

Terry Lee Ivener, of Sioux City, Iowa, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on June 11, 1968, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 26. His name is inscribed on Panel 58W, Line 26 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 58W · Line 26

Position of Panel 58W 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
Clerk (70A)
Unit (as recorded)
1 AVN BDE
Born
November 6, 1941
Home of record
Sioux City, Iowa (Woodbury County)

Casualty

Date of death
June 11, 1968
Age
26
Province
Binh Dinh
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Aircraft Crash — Passenger (MC)

Context · from the records

What was happening

51 names on the Wall carry the date June 11, 1968; two of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In June 1968, 1,257 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Aviation Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 45 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 58W, Line 26

Same unit, same day

From Sioux City

All 28 names from Sioux City →

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.