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DANIEL CRAIG GILLESPIE
Sergeant · U.S. Army
November 15, 1947 – April 28, 1967
Service recordDaniel Craig Gillespie, of Northfield Falls, Vermont, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on April 28, 1967, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 18E, Line 107 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 18E · Line 107
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Sergeant (SGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Armor Crewman (11E)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- November 15, 1947
- Home of record
- Northfield Falls, Vermont (Washington County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 28, 1967
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
36 names on the Wall carry the date April 28, 1967; seven of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In April 1967, 887 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 61 of its members that month.
He died in Tây Ninh Province while Operation Junction City was under way. Operation Junction City (22 February–14 May 1967), in War Zone C along the Cambodian border, was the largest U.S. operation of the war to that time and included the only major American combat parachute assault of the war. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Also on Panel 18E, Line 107
- TEODORO DAVILAStaff Sergeant · April 28, 1967
- JERRY DELPHStaff Sergeant · April 28, 1967
- ROBERT WAYNE EDWARDSPrivate First Class · April 28, 1967
- DANIEL CHARLES FOWLERPlatoon Sergeant · April 28, 1967
Same unit, same day
- JOSEPH JAMES BORICKPrivate First Class · Panel 18E, Line 105
- TEODORO DAVILAStaff Sergeant · Panel 18E, Line 107
- JAMES EDWARD GREENLEECorporal · Panel 18E, Line 108
- JULIAN MARINPrivate First Class · Panel 18E, Line 109
- ROBERT HERBERT MILLERSpecialist Four · Panel 18E, Line 110
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.