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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 Warren Charles Deyermond.

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WARREN CHARLES DEYERMOND

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

August 31, 1948 – July 14, 1969

Service record

Warren Charles Deyermond, of Andover, Massachusetts, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on July 14, 1969, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 21W, Line 116 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 21W · Line 116

Position of Panel 21W 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
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
5 INF DIV MECH
Born
August 31, 1948
Home of record
Andover, Massachusetts (Essex County)

Casualty

Date of death
July 14, 1969
Age
20
Province
Quang Tri
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

39 names on the Wall carry the date July 14, 1969; seven of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In July 1969, 834 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The unit recorded as “5 INF DIV MECH”, his unit in the record, lost 15 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 21W, Line 116

Same unit, same day

From Andover

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.