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BERTRAND RONALD GAGNE
Private First Class · U.S. Army
July 8, 1948 – August 22, 1969
Service recordBertrand Ronald Gagne, of Auburn, Maine, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on August 22, 1969, in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 19W, Line 93 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 19W · Line 93
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Field Artillery Basic (13A)
- Unit (as recorded)
- AMERICAL DIV
- Born
- July 8, 1948
- Home of record
- Auburn, Maine (Androscoggin County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 22, 1969
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Quang Ngai
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
46 names on the Wall carry the date August 22, 1969; six of them were lost in Quảng Ngãi Province. In August 1969, 962 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The Americal Division, his unit in the record, lost 28 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 19W, Line 93
- DENNIS ALBERT GATTIPrivate First Class · August 22, 1969
- LAWRENCE RAY GOODMAN JRSpecialist Four · August 22, 1969
- MICHAEL JOHN GRECUSpecialist Four · August 22, 1969
- JOHN MICHAEL HILLSergeant · August 22, 1969
From Auburn
- REGINALD NICHOLASSergeant · October 3, 1965
- PETER GEORGE VLAHAKOSStaff Sergeant · February 1, 1966
- HAROLD EVERETT WALKER JRSpecialist Five · March 8, 1968
- WILLIAM RUSSELL ALMONPrivate First Class · July 30, 1968
- MICHAEL HUBERT DESCHENESPrivate First Class · September 16, 1968
- BRUCE IRVING LUTTRELLMaster Sergeant · May 20, 1969
- ALBERT LEE BELANGERPrivate First Class · September 13, 1969
- ALLEN MELVIN HUTCHINSONCorporal · February 5, 1970
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.