South Vietnam Casualties

Transcribed by Kay Clerc

 

Leslie Morgan Aly                                                    

Birth Date: 12 Aug 1947                                                                   

Death Date: 17 Sep 1969                                                                   

Hostile  Killed - Explosive Device

Home: De Soto, Missouri                                                                             

Tour Start Date: 2 May 1969                                                            

Service Branch: Navy                                                           

Private First Class

Regiment: 3RD MARINES    Batallion: 3RD BN    

 

Thomas Alan Backy                                                              

Birth Date: 12 Mar 1948                                                                   

Death Date: 9 Feb 1968         

Hostile Killed - Multi-Fragment Wounds                                                                

Home: Festus, Missouri

Tour Start Date: 14 Dec 1967                                                                       

Service Branch: Department of the Army                

Light Weapons Infantry (ARMY)                                         

Rank:  Private First Class                                                                 

Company: C    Regiment: 35th Inf     Batallion: 1st Bn       

 

Thomas Albert Badger                                                                      

Birth Date: 21 Jul 1945                                                                     

Death Date: 30 Jan 1968       

Hostile  Killed - Gunshot or Small Arms Fire

Home: Arnold, Missouri                                                                   

Service Branch: Department of the Army                                                                

Tour Start Date: 23 Apr 1967                                                           

Service Branch: Department of the Army                                                                

Rank: Specialist Fourth Class                                                                       

Company: HHD Regiment: USASC, Qui Nhon       

 

Gary Allen Bullerdick                                                                       

Birth Date: 19 Dec 1947                                                                   

Death Date: 4 Feb 1970

Hostile Killed - Helicopter Air Casualty

Home: Arnold, Missouri       

Tour Start Date: 24 Mar 1969                                                                       

Service Branch: Department of the Army                                                                

Rank: Chief Warrant Officer                                                            

Company: D  Batallion: 158th Asslt Hel Bn

 

Steven Clarence Bush                                                           

Birth Date: 13 Jul 1948                                                                     

Death Date: 3 Jun 1968                                                                     

Hostile Killed - Gunshot or Small Arms Fire          

Home: Grubville, Missouri                                                   

Tour Start Date: 7 Mar 1968                                                             

Service Branch: Department of the Army    

Light Weapons Infantry (ARMY)     

Rank: Corporal                                                                      

Company: A   Regiment: 39th Inf  Batallion: 2nd Bn                                                                     

Jerry Ray Carter                                                                    

Birth Date: 8 Sep 1944                                                                      

Death Date: 29 Jun 1967

Hostile Killed - Multi-Fragment Wounds                                                                            

Home City: Imperial, Missouri                                                                     

Service Branch: Marine Corps                                                                      

Rank: Lance Corporal           

                                                           

Robert Harrison Clifton                                                                    

Birth Date: 12 Jan 1948                                                                    

Death Date: 23 Oct 1971

Non-Hostile - Drowned/Suffocated                                                              

Home: Arnold, Missouri                                                                   

Tour Start Date: 23 Jan 1971                                                            

Service Branch: Department of the Army                                                                

Rank:  Specialist Fourth Class                                                                     

Company: A Trp   Regiment: 17th Cav  Batallion: 3rd Sqdr           

                                                                       

James Francis Coleman                                                                    

Birth Date: 4 Aug 1947                                                                     

Death Date: 29 Feb 1968

Hostile Killed - Gunshot or Small Arms Fire                                                                                  

Home: Festus, Missouri                    

Tour Start Date: 12 Apr 1967                                                           

Service Branch: Department of the Army    

Light Weapons Infantry (ARMY)                                                     

Rank: Sergeant

Company: C   Regiment: 8th Inf   Batallion: 1st Bn

                                                           

Lonald Ray Coleman                                                             

Birth Date: 11 Aug 1948                                                                   

Death Date: 8 Feb 1971

Hostile Killed - Gunshot or Small Arms Fire                                                                                  

Home: DeSoto, Missouri                  

Death Date: 8 Feb 1971                                                                     

Tour Start Date: 23 Aug 1970                                                                       

Service Branch: Department of the Army                                                                

Rank: Sergeant

Company: C    Regiment:11th Inf   Batallion: 1st Bn                                                           

Light Weapons Infantry (ARMY)     

                                                           

Jay Alan Cook                                                                       

Birth Date: 29 Mar 1943                                                                   

Death Date: 6 May 1968

Hostile Killed - Gunshot or Small Arms Fire                                                                                  

Home: High Ridge, Missouri                                                            

Tour Start Date: 13 Apr 1968                                                           

Service Branch: Department of the Army                                                                

Rank: Private First Class                              

Company: A   Regiment: 22nd Inf    Batallion: 2nd Bn      

                                                           

Norman Ottis Copeland                                                                    

Birth Date: 19 Jul 1947                                                                     

Death Date: 5 Feb 1968

Hostile Killed - Helicopter Air Casualty                                                                  

Home City: DeSoto, Missouri                                                                                              

Tour Start Date: 10 Nov 1967                                                                       

Service Branch: United States Marine Corps                                                                       

Rank:Corporal           

 

Francis Edwin Cortor,  Jr                                                                  

Birth Date: 23 May 1947                                                                  

Death Date: 21 Oct 1969

Hostile Killed - Artillery/Rocket                                                                  

Home City: Festus, Missouri                                                            

Tour Start Date: 23 Jul 1968                                                             

Service Branch: Department of the Army                                                                

Rank: Sergeant

Company: C    Regiment: 11th Inf  Batallion: 1st Bn           

 

Phillip Ray Doebert                                                               

Birth Date: 21 Apr 1950                                                                    

Death Date: 12 May 1969

Hostile Killed - Multi-Fragment Wounds                                                                

Home: DeSoto, Missouri                                                                  

Tour Start Date: 12 Jan 1969                                                            

Service Branch: Department of the Army                                                                

Rank: Specialist Fourth Class                                                           

Company: Btry A  Regiment: 6th Arty   Batallion: 8th Bn  

                                                                       

Ronald Marion Filkins                                                                      

Birth Date: 12 Sep 1946                                                                    

Death Date: 20 Jul 1966

Hostile Killed - Multi-Fragment Wounds                                                                

Home: DeSoto, Missouri                                                                  

Service Branch: United States Marine Corps                                                                       

Rank: Private First Class                                                                              

Unit: 1 BN 1 MAR 3D MAR DIV                                                                 

Service Occupation: Mortarman (USMC)    

                                                                       

James Gormon Goetz                                                            

Birth Date: 6 May 1946                                                                    

Death Date: 16 Mar 1967

Hostile Killed - Explosive Device

Home: DeSoto, Missouri      

Service Branch: United States Marine Corps                                                                       

Rank: Lance Corporal

Unit: E CO 2ND BN 9TH MARS                                                                 

Service Occupation: Assaultman (USMC)   

 

George Thomas Hall                                                             

Birth Date: 10 Dec 1948                                                                   

Death Date: May 1969

Hostile Killed - Gunshot or Small Arms Fire                                                                                  

Home: Crystal City, Missouri                                                                       

Tour Start Date: 13 Apr 1969                                                           

Service Branch: Department of the Army                                                                

Rank: Private First Class      

Company: D   Regiment: 27th Inf   Batallion:1st Bn           

 

Hershel Higgins                                                                     

Birth Date: 19 Mar 1947                                                                   

Death Date: 23 Jan 1968

Hostile Killed - Multi-Fragment Wounds                                                                

Home: Herculaneum, Missouri                     

Tour Start Date: 4 Oct 1967                                                              

Service Branch: Department of the Army                                                                

Rank: Specialist Fourth Class                                                           

Company: B    Regiment: 46th Inf     Batallion:  1st Bn      

                                                                       

Fredrick Lee Holder                                                              

Birth Date: 28 Mar 1946                                                                   

Death Date: 16 Jan 1969

Non-Hostile - Helicopter Air Casualty                                                                     

Home: Cedar Hill, Missouri                                                             

Tour Start Date: 1 Mar 1968                                                             

Service Branch: Department of the Army                                        

Company: A   Batallion: 227th Assault Hel Bn                                                                   

Service Occupation: Single-Rotor Turbine Observation/ Utility Helicopter Repairman   

 

Robert Leroy Killabrew                                                                    

Birth Date: 11 Jul 1939                                                                     

Death Date: 12 Jan 1966

Hostile Killed - Gunshot or Small Arms Fire                                                                                  

Home: Kimmswick, Missouri                                                                                                           

Tour Start Date: 21 Sep 1965                                                            

Service Branch: Department of the Army                                                                

Rank: Staff Sergeant

Company: D   Regiment: 16th Inf     Batallion: 1st Bn       

                                                           

John Joseph Livingston                                                                     

Birth Date: 25 Nov 1939                                                                   

Death Date: 11 Nov 1966

Hostile Killed - Died While Missing; Helicopter Air Casualty

Home: Cedar Hill, Missouri 

Tour Start Date: 16 Mar 1966                                                                       

Service Branch: Department of the Army                                                                

Rank:  Captain                                   

Company: 117th Aviation Co                                                                       

Service Occupation: Rotary Wing Aviator (ARMY)           

 

Roman Gale Mason                                                               

Birth Date: 25 Sep 1947                                                                    

Death Date: 27 Jan 1969                                                                   

Home City: Arnold, Missouri                       

Tour Start Date: 8 May 1968                                                            

Service Branch: Department of the Army                                                                

Rank: Sergeant          

Company: E    Regiment: 50th Inf LRRP                                                                 

Service Occupation: Field Wireman (ARMY)         

 

James Richard Mertell, Jr                                                                 

Birth Date: 4 Jul 1946                                                                       

Death Date: 16 Sep 1967

Non Hostile - Illness/Disease

Home: De Soto, Missouri                                                                 

Tour Start Date: 31 Jan 1967                                                            

Service Branch: Department of the Army                                                                

Military Grade: Specialist Fourth Class                   

Company: 523rd Eng Co       

 

Joseph Walter Morrison                                                                    

Birth Date: 1 Jul 1946                                                                       

Death Date: 14 Mar 1967

Hostile Killed - Gunshot or Small Arms Fire          

Home: Festus, Missouri                                

Tour Start Date: 1 Dec 1966                                                             

Service Branch: Department of the Army    

Rank: Specialist Fourth Class                                                                       

Company: B    Regiment: 60th Inf     Batallion: 5th Bn       

 

Warren Cecil Parsons, Jr.                                                                  

Birth Date: 9 Jun 1946                                                                      

Death Date: 20 Apr 1968

Hostile Killed -Helicopter Air Casualty

Home: Crystal City, Missouri                       

Tour Start Date: 6 Dec 1967                                                             

Service Branch: United States Marine Corps                                                                       

                                                                                                                                   

William Joseph Perryman                                                                 

Birth Date: 13 Oct 1944                                                                    

Death Date: 19 Nov 1970

Non Hostile - Died of Accidental Self-Destruction 

Home: Festus, Missouri                    

Tour Start Date: 7 Oct 1968                                                              

Service Branch: Department of the Army                                                                

Rank: Specialist Fifth Class                                                              

Company: 117th Avn Regiment:12th Avn Grp   Batallion: 222nd Avn Bn           

Service Occupation: Single-Rotor Turbine Observation/ Utility Helicopter Repairman

 

Darrel Gene Pierce                                                                

Birth Date: 14 Jan 1946                                                                    

Death Date: 8 Nov 1969

Hostile Killed - Explosive Device

Home: Hillsboro, Missouri                                                               

Service Branch: Department of the Army                                                                

Rank: Staff Sergeant                                                             

Company: Trp D   Regiment: 4th Cav   Batallion: 3rd Sqrd

 

John David Ponder                                                                

Birth Date: 21 Oct 1948                                                                    

Death Date: 16 May 1968     

Hostile Killed - Gunshot or Small Arms Fire          

Home:             High Ridge, Missouri

Tour Start Date: 2 Jan 1968                                                              

Service Branch: United States Marine Corps           

Rank: Lance Corporal                                                                       

Unit: G CO 2 BN 7 MARS 1 MAR DIV                                                                   

Service Occupation: Rifleman (USMC)       

 

Gary W Prather                                                                     

Birth Date: 11 Jan 1947                                                                    

Death Date: 29 Dec 1966

Hostile Killed - Gunshot or Small Arms Fire                                                                                  

Home City: Festus, Missouri                                                                                                

Service Branch: Department of the Army                                                                

Rank: Private First Class      

Company: B    Regiment: 327th Inf   Batallion: 1st Bn       

 

Stacey Dana Reece                                                                

Birth Date: 7 May 1949                                                                    

Death Date: 28 Feb 1968       

Hostile Killed - Artillery/Rocket                                                      

Home: Pevely, Missouri                                                                   

Tour Start Date: 6 Jan 1968                                                              

Service Branch: Department of the Army                                                                

Rank: Specialist Fourth Class           

Company: D   Regiment: 79th Eng Grp  Batallion: 554th Eng Bn