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WILLIE CLEBER PENDERGRASS
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
June 27, 1937 – May 12, 1967
Service recordWillie Cleber Pendergrass, of Gravelly, Arkansas, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on May 12, 1967, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 29. His name is inscribed on Panel 19E, Line 99 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 19E · Line 99
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
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Unit (as recorded)
- B BTRY 1 BN 44 ARTY I FF
- Born
- June 27, 1937
- Home of record
- Gravelly, Arkansas (Yell County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 12, 1967
- Age
- 29
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
56 names on the Wall carry the date May 12, 1967; seven of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In May 1967, 1,396 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “B BTRY 1 BN 44 ARTY I FF”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 19E, Line 99
- ABRAHAM PANGANORANStaff Sergeant · May 12, 1967
- CLOYDE CYRIS PINSON JRPrivate First Class · May 12, 1967
- PETER POTTER PITMANMajor · May 12, 1967
- GERALD ANDREW REITERPrivate First Class · May 12, 1967
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.