Hendrix, Jerry Wayne
Marines Staff sergeant

Jerry Wayne Hendrix, age 29, from Wichita, Kansas, Sedgwick county.

Service era: Vietnam

Date of death: Tuesday, July 11, 1972

Death details: On March 8, 2004, the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC, now DPAA) identified the remains of Staff Sergeant Jerry Wayne Hendrix, missing from the Vietnam War.

Staff Sergeant Hendrix entered the U.S. Marine Corps from Kansas and was a member of Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron 165. On July 11, 1972, he was a passenger aboard a CH-53D Sea Stallion (tail number 156658) that took off from the USS Tripoli (LPH-10) on a troop insertion mission into territory near Quang Tri City, South Vietnam. During the mission, the aircraft was hit by an enemy missile, burst into flames, and crashed in Quang Tri Province, killing SSgt Hendrix and the others on board. His remains could not be recovered at the time. In April 1990, a joint team located the crash site in Quang Tri Province and later excavations recovered human remains and personal effects from relating to the incident. Modern forensic techniques were able to identify SSgt Hendrix among the remains.

Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency