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DERYL RAY GARVICK
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
February 22, 1949 – February 16, 1968
Service recordDeryl Ray Garvick, of Kiester, Minnesota, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on February 16, 1968, in Phong Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 39E, Line 59 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 39E · Line 59
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Armor Reconnaissance Specialist (11D)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- February 22, 1949
- Home of record
- Kiester, Minnesota (Faribault County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 16, 1968
- Age
- 18
- Province
- Phong Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
61 names on the Wall carry the date February 16, 1968; he was the only one lost in Phong Dinh Province that day. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 164 of its members that month.
He died in Phong Dinh Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Also on Panel 39E, Line 59
- TAYLOR W FOREMAN JRStaff Sergeant · February 16, 1968
- ARTHUR TIMOTHY FRILEYCorporal · February 16, 1968
- BOBBY FRANK GALBREATHCaptain · February 16, 1968
- ALEXANDER GIEJCHospitalman · February 16, 1968
Same unit, same day
- ARTHUR TIMOTHY FRILEYCorporal · Panel 39E, Line 59
- GARY DALE JOHNSONPrivate First Class · Panel 39E, Line 61
- GERALD LEE MILBRODTPrivate First Class · Panel 39E, Line 63
- CULLEN WOOD QUINCorporal · Panel 39E, Line 65
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.