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TERRY LEO TRAINOR
First Lieutenant · U.S. Army
March 25, 1947 – March 13, 1968
Service recordTerry Leo Trainor, of Lovington, New Mexico, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on March 13, 1968, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 44E, Line 42 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 44E · Line 42
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
- First Lieutenant (1LT)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Infantry Unit Commander (1542)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- March 25, 1947
- Home of record
- Lovington, New Mexico (Lea County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 13, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
57 names on the Wall carry the date March 13, 1968; four of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 188 of its members that month.
He died in Tây Ninh Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Also on Panel 44E, Line 42
- BOBBY DAN TUCKERPrivate First Class · March 13, 1968
- JIMMY LEE WATSONChief Warrant Officer 3 · March 13, 1968
- TERRY EMERSON WEBBCorporal · March 13, 1968
- JOSEPH R WENZLERSpecialist Four · March 13, 1968
Same unit, same day
- LYTELL B CHRISTIANStaff Sergeant · Panel 44E, Line 32
- DAVID KENNETH DITCHSergeant · Panel 44E, Line 35
- TODD EARLE SWANSONPrivate First Class · Panel 44E, Line 41
From Lovington
- REYNALDO GUZMANLance Corporal · January 25, 1966
- EDWARD EARL DAVIESLance Corporal · August 22, 1967
- ENNIS EUGENE CROWSpecialist Four · January 2, 1968
- HAROLD EUGENE HAGERLance Corporal · January 6, 1968
- JOHN A RICKELSSergeant · January 29, 1968
- RONALD GENE MCCRAWSergeant · March 14, 1968
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.