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AMBROSE GASSAWAY
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
July 31, 1949 – July 4, 1969
Service recordAmbrose Gassaway, of Fisher, Louisiana, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on July 4, 1969, in Binh Long Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 21W, Line 59 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 21W · Line 59
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
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 11 ARMORED CAV
- Born
- July 31, 1949
- Home of record
- Fisher, Louisiana
Casualty
- Date of death
- July 4, 1969
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Binh Long
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
31 names on the Wall carry the date July 4, 1969; three of them were lost in Binh Long Province. In July 1969, 834 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “11 ARMORED CAV”, his unit in the record, lost 20 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 21W, Line 59
- PATRICK MARTIN FALLONColonel · July 4, 1969
- JOHN WILLIE GLADNEYPrivate First Class · July 4, 1969
- DREW MARLIN GREENMANCorporal · July 4, 1969
Same unit, same day
- RAYMOND LEE PIRRMANSpecialist Four · Panel 21W, Line 62
- JIMMY DON WESTSergeant First Class · Panel 21W, Line 64
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.