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TERRY Y OGAMI
Corporal · U.S. Army
May 30, 1946 – February 20, 1968
Service recordTerry Y Ogami, of Reedley, California, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Army. He died on February 20, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 40E, Line 45 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 40E · Line 45
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Corporal (CPL)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
- Born
- May 30, 1946
- Home of record
- Reedley, California (Fresno County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 20, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
76 names on the Wall carry the date February 20, 1968; seven of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 168 of its members that month.
He died in Quảng Trị Province while the siege of Khe Sanh was under way. From 21 January 1968, North Vietnamese divisions besieged the Marine combat base at Khe Sanh and its hill outposts near the Laotian border for 77 days, while U.S. aircraft dropped some 100,000 tons of bombs around it. Operation Pegasus reached the base on 8 April. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Read the history
Also on Panel 40E, Line 45
- MICHAEL JOSEPH MCGINNISMajor · February 20, 1968
- LARRY DOUGLAS NEASBITTSergeant · February 20, 1968
- GALEN ERICK OHLSONSpecialist Five · February 20, 1968
- ALFRED RICHARD OLSONSpecialist Five · February 20, 1968
Same unit, same day
- RAYMOND EARL CARPENTERSergeant · Panel 40E, Line 37
- BOBBY RAY TALTONSpecialist Four · Panel 40E, Line 48
From Reedley
- TONY EIDDIE GABALDONPrivate First Class · September 4, 1967
- JOHN FRANK CANDELASPrivate First Class · April 5, 1968
- JOE FRANCISCO PEREZ JRCorporal · June 25, 1968
- ROBERT ANDREW PORTEPrivate First Class · April 9, 1969
- MICHAEL ERNEST MATTASpecialist Four · April 11, 1969
- HERMAN HENRY HUEBNERSergeant · July 5, 1969
- FRANK RODRIQUEZ CORONASergeant · May 2, 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.