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ALAN STUART GELB
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Marine Corps
May 23, 1937 – May 18, 1968
Service recordAlan Stuart Gelb, of Forest Hills, New York, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on May 18, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 30. His name is inscribed on Panel 62E, Line 17 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 62E · Line 17
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Staff Sergeant (SSGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Photographer (4631)
- Born
- May 23, 1937
- Home of record
- Forest Hills, New York (Queens County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 18, 1968
- Age
- 30
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
59 names on the Wall carry the date May 18, 1968; 11 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 62E, Line 17
- WALTER LYMAN ENSIGN JRPrivate First Class · May 18, 1968
- JULIAN THOMAS FIELDSSergeant · May 18, 1968
- KEVIN LYNN FORBESPrivate First Class · May 18, 1968
- BYRL WILLIAM GAERTNERLance Corporal · May 18, 1968
From Forest Hills
- NORMAN STANLEY LEVYLieutenant Commander · October 26, 1966
- DEE WAYNE STONE JRFirst Lieutenant · November 11, 1966
- STEPHEN LEBITZ JRSpecialist Four · July 23, 1967
- RICHARD JOHN MYSKYWEIZPrivate First Class · May 16, 1968
- LUIS FORERO SAAVEDRAPrivate First Class · October 12, 1968
- ROBERT P MAYERWarrant Officer 1 · September 17, 1969
- FRANCIS XAVIER EGANCaptain · December 19, 1972
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.