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TERRY WAYNE SUTTON
Private First Class · U.S. Army
October 10, 1948 – February 24, 1968
Service recordTerry Wayne Sutton, of Greenville, North Carolina, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on February 24, 1968, in South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 41E, Line 13 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 41E · Line 13
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 11 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- October 10, 1948
- Home of record
- Greenville, North Carolina (Pitt County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 24, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
45 names on the Wall carry the date February 24, 1968. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 11th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 25 of its members that month.
He died in South Vietnam 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.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 41E, Line 13
- JULIUS NICHOLAS SZAHLENDERSpecialist Five · February 24, 1968
- NORMAN EUGENE THOMASStaff Sergeant · February 24, 1968
- WILLIAM ROBERT TRUSTY JRPrivate First Class · February 24, 1968
- M B WALKER JRPrivate First Class · February 24, 1968
Same unit, same day
- ROBERT BENJAMIN HUDSONSpecialist Four · Panel 41E, Line 9
From Greenville
- GRIFFIN ELI SCARBOROUGHCaptain · May 12, 1968
- WILLIE TUCKER JRLance Corporal · May 31, 1968
- ROBERT DOUGLAS MOYECorporal · August 22, 1968
- GARY STEPHEN HODGESPrivate First Class · December 10, 1968
- DONALD RAY ARNOLDPrivate First Class · March 27, 1969
- RONNIE GILMAN ALCOCKPetty Officer Second Class · May 17, 1969
- RICHARD JAMES PARNELLSergeant · July 21, 1969
- RICHARD KEY GRAYChief Warrant Officer 2 · September 14, 1969
- WALTER LEE WILSON JRSergeant · February 24, 1970
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.