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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault.
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Darrell Dean Gehrke.

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DARRELL DEAN GEHRKE

Specialist Five · U.S. Army

March 23, 1942 – December 26, 1967

Service record

Darrell Dean Gehrke, of Big Springs, Nebraska, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on December 26, 1967, in Binh Long Province, South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 32E, Line 63 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 32E · Line 63

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Specialist Five (SP5)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Born
March 23, 1942
Home of record
Big Springs, Nebraska (Deuel County)

Casualty

Date of death
December 26, 1967
Age
25
Province
Binh Long
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Died of Wounds
Circumstance
Unknown

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29 names on the Wall carry the date December 26, 1967; he was the only one lost in Binh Long Province that day. In December 1967, 937 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

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Also on Panel 32E, Line 63

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.