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DAVID EUGENE GORRELL
Private First Class · U.S. Army
January 23, 1947 – April 7, 1967
Service recordDavid Eugene Gorrell, of Malta Bend, Missouri, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on April 7, 1967, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 17E, Line 116 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 17E · Line 116
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 196 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- January 23, 1947
- Home of record
- Malta Bend, Missouri (Saline County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 7, 1967
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
26 names on the Wall carry the date April 7, 1967; eight of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In April 1967, 887 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 196th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 21 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 17E, Line 116
- RONALD DAVID ANDERSONPrivate First Class · April 7, 1967
- MICHAEL FRANK FLYNNSergeant · April 7, 1967
- ROSS ALLEN GASTONPrivate First Class · April 7, 1967
- MICHAEL M KAUFFMAN IIPetty Officer Second Class · April 7, 1967
Same unit, same day
- ROBERT ANDREW ONEILSpecialist Five · Panel 17E, Line 118
- GERALD W WILSONSpecialist Five · Panel 17E, Line 118
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.