Terry S. Small
Philadelphia Memorial Panel: Panel 28
National Memorial Panel / Row:
West 18 /
35
Date of Birth: 02-Jul-1949
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Branch of Service: Marine Corps
Rank: PFC
Date of Casualty: 04-Sep-1969
Province of Casualty: Quang Nam
The 20-year-old private first class was a laboratory technician at Metropolitan Hospital before he joined the Marine Corps in February 1969. Small was sent to Vietnam and assigned to Company G of the 2nd Battalion, 7th Marines, 1st Marine Division. He was killed on Sept. 4, 1969, six weeks after arriving in the war zone, in Quang Nam Province, when a grenade from friendly forces exploded near him. Survivors included his mother and stepfather.