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AUGUST GONSALVES JR
Sergeant · U.S. Army
December 12, 1946 – June 5, 1968
Service recordAugust Gonsalves JR, of Dorchester, Massachusetts, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on June 5, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 60W, Line 17 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 60W · Line 17
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Sergeant (SGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- December 12, 1946
- Home of record
- Dorchester, Massachusetts (Suffolk County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 5, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
53 names on the Wall carry the date June 5, 1968; three of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In June 1968, 1,257 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 82 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 60W, Line 17
- JEFFERY EVAN FESERLance Corporal · June 5, 1968
- JUAN F GARCIA-FIGUEROALance Corporal · June 5, 1968
- MACARTHUR G GEESergeant · June 5, 1968
- CLAUDE MARVIN GEORGEPrivate First Class · June 5, 1968
Same unit, same day
- JAMES OLIVER ELLSWORTHSergeant · Panel 60W, Line 16
- DENNIS LEE SUTTONStaff Sergeant · Panel 60W, Line 22
From Dorchester
- JACK RABINOVITZCorporal · February 23, 1966
- PATRICK JOSEPH KELLY JRSergeant · February 28, 1966
- MICHAEL DAVID BURTPrivate First Class · June 1, 1966
- THOMAS JOSEPH KANEPrivate · September 21, 1966
- JOSEPH ROBERT WALLENLance Corporal · January 26, 1967
- MARK MICHAEL MCLAUGHLINPrivate First Class · February 18, 1967
- WAVERIE HUGH BUCHANANLance Corporal · March 17, 1967
- FREDERICK ALFRED MCMAHONCorporal · May 4, 1967
- GERALD FRANCIS MCDONALDCorporal · May 26, 1967
- JOHN PATRICK COLLOPYPrivate First Class · July 15, 1967
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.