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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 Robert Meyer.

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TERRY ROBERT MEYER

Sergeant · U.S. Army

March 8, 1947 – August 13, 1968

Service record

Terry Robert Meyer, of Holland, Michigan, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on August 13, 1968, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 48W, Line 8 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 48W · Line 8

Position of Panel 48W 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
Sergeant (SGT)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
1 INF DIV
Born
March 8, 1947
Home of record
Holland, Michigan (Multiple County)

Casualty

Date of death
August 13, 1968
Age
21
Province
Binh Duong
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Grenade

Context · from the records

What was happening

27 names on the Wall carry the date August 13, 1968; eight of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In August 1968, 1,313 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 62 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 48W, Line 8

Same unit, same day

From Holland

All 16 names from Holland →

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.