The WallVietnam Veterans Memorial · The Lake Norman Brief
A 5th Special Forces Group sergeant teaches Civilian Irregular Defense Group trainees, March 1967.
A 5th Special Forces Group sergeant teaches Civilian Irregular Defense Group trainees, March 1967. Photo: SP5 Robert C. Lafoon, DASPO, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Douglas Taylor Gray III.

The Wall › Panel 15W › Virginia › Douglas Taylor Gray III

DOUGLAS TAYLOR GRAY III

Captain · U.S. Army

July 13, 1943 – December 9, 1969

Service record

Douglas Taylor Gray III, of Dahlgren, Virginia, served as a Captain in the U.S. Army. He died on December 9, 1969, in Kontum Province, South Vietnam, at age 26. His name is inscribed on Panel 15W, Line 41 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 15W · Line 41

Position of Panel 15W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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.

See this name on the Wall

Remember

Did you know him? Family members and friends are invited to share a photograph or a memory. Nothing is posted until it has been reviewed.

Share a photo or memoryPhotos & remembrances on VVMF’s Wall of Faces ↗

Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Captain (CPT)
Service
Regular
Unit (as recorded)
SPECIAL FORCES
Born
July 13, 1943
Home of record
Dahlgren, Virginia (King George County)

Casualty

Date of death
December 9, 1969
Age
26
Province
Kontum
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

19 names on the Wall carry the date December 9, 1969; he was the only one lost in Kon Tum Province that day. In December 1969, 509 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 8 of its members that month.

Read the history

On the Wall

Elsewhere

Also on Panel 15W, Line 41

Same unit, same day

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.