The Wall › Panel 21W › Kentucky › Bobby Lee Gentry
BOBBY LEE GENTRY
Private First Class · U.S. Army
March 29, 1950 – July 8, 1969
Service recordBobby Lee Gentry, of Winchester, Kentucky, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on July 8, 1969, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 21W, Line 83 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 21W · Line 83
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.
Remember
Did you know him? Family members and friends are invited to share a photograph or a memory. Nothing is posted until it has been reviewed.
Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- March 29, 1950
- Home of record
- Winchester, Kentucky (Clark County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- July 8, 1969
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Binh Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
37 names on the Wall carry the date July 8, 1969; two of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In July 1969, 834 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 26 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 21W, Line 83
- WESLEY ONEAL GRANTPrivate First Class · July 8, 1969
- DONALD LEE GRUBBPrivate First Class · July 8, 1969
- FRANK WILLIAM HUMESCorporal · July 8, 1969
- HENRY DAVID HUNTERCorporal · July 8, 1969
From Winchester
- MERLE EDWARD ESTESStaff Sergeant · June 11, 1965
- FLOYD BARKER JRPrivate First Class · March 22, 1967
- EVERETT ALLEN PLANCKCorporal · September 13, 1968
- WILLIE GENE ALDRIDGEPrivate First Class · December 10, 1968
- BOBBY GENE NEWBYCorporal · May 18, 1969
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.