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EARL GAUTNEY
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
December 12, 1935 – October 23, 1967
Service recordEarl Gautney, of Coffee Springs, Alabama, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on October 23, 1967, in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, at age 31. His name is inscribed on Panel 28E, Line 58 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 28E · Line 58
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
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- December 12, 1935
- Home of record
- Coffee Springs, Alabama (Geneva County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 23, 1967
- Age
- 31
- Province
- Quang Ngai
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
33 names on the Wall carry the date October 23, 1967; four of them were lost in Quảng Ngãi Province. In October 1967, 906 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 81 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 28E, Line 58
- OSCAR LOW THOMAS JRSpecialist Four · October 23, 1967
- ROBERT G TSCHUMPERPrivate First Class · October 23, 1967
- EDDIE D TURNERCorporal · October 23, 1967
- GEORGE MICKEL VINEYARDPrivate First Class · October 23, 1967
Same unit, same day
- ROBERT DANIEL CAINPrivate First Class · Panel 28E, Line 53
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.