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DAVID CLARK GREGORY
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
April 16, 1927 – January 24, 1967
Service recordDavid Clark Gregory, of Noxapater, Mississippi, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on January 24, 1967, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 39. His name is inscribed on Panel 14E, Line 73 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 14E · Line 73
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
- Specialist Five (SP5)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Medical Specialist (91B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 INF DIV
- Born
- April 16, 1927
- Home of record
- Noxapater, Mississippi (Winston County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 24, 1967
- Age
- 39
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
17 names on the Wall carry the date January 24, 1967; three of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In January 1967, 638 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 69 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 14E, Line 73
- ANTONIO ALVARADO ESQUEDASpecialist Four · January 24, 1967
- CECIL FRANKLIN FINCHER JRHospitalman · January 24, 1967
- JIMMIE ANDREW HERRERACorporal · January 24, 1967
- ROBERT HAROLD SMITHSpecialist Four · January 24, 1967
Same unit, same day
- RODERICK CHARLES PORTELLOStaff Sergeant · Panel 14E, Line 74
- FRANCIS JAMES THOMPSONCaptain · Panel 14E, Line 75
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.