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CALVIN LIONEL GOOCH
Corporal · U.S. Army
August 9, 1947 – May 11, 1968
Service recordCalvin Lionel Gooch, of Burkeville, Texas, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Army. He died on May 11, 1968, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 58E, Line 21 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 58E · Line 21
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
- Corporal (CPL)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Medical Equipment Repairer (91A)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- August 9, 1947
- Home of record
- Burkeville, Texas (Newton County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 11, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Binh Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
54 names on the Wall carry the date May 11, 1968; three of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 70 of its members that month.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 58E, Line 21
- WILLIE FRANK GARNERSergeant · May 11, 1968
- DAVID DEL GRAHAMSergeant · May 11, 1968
- MARVIN JIM HANNACorporal · May 11, 1968
- LARRY RAY JOHNSONSpecialist Four · May 11, 1968
Same unit, same day
- DONALD EUGENE HONEYCUTTSergeant · Panel 58E, Line 22
- JAMES SIDNEY RYLEESpecialist Five · Panel 58E, Line 26
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.