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Marines use an M48 tank as cover in the street fighting in Huế, 4 February 1968.
Marines use an M48 tank as cover in the street fighting in Huế, 4 February 1968. Photo: SSgt Jack L. Harlan, USMC, CC BY 2.0. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Aubrey Goff JR.

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AUBREY GOFF JR

Sergeant · U.S. Army

January 23, 1947 – January 31, 1968

Service record

Aubrey Goff JR, of Louisville, Kentucky, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on January 31, 1968, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 36E, Line 10 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 36E · Line 10

Position of Panel 36E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Sergeant (SGT)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Utility Helicopter Repairer (67N)
Unit (as recorded)
1 AVN BDE
Born
January 23, 1947
Home of record
Louisville, Kentucky (Jefferson County)

Casualty

Date of death
January 31, 1968
Age
21
Province
Binh Duong
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

246 names on the Wall carry the date January 31, 1968; four of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In January 1968, 1,546 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Aviation Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 33 of its members that month.

He died in Bình Dương Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.

Also on Panel 36E, Line 10

Same unit, same day

From Louisville

All 178 names from Louisville →

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.