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EDDIE DEAN GADSON
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
March 9, 1949 – May 8, 1968
Service recordEddie Dean Gadson, of Salina, Kansas, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on May 8, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 57E, Line 3 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 57E · Line 3
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Machinegunner (0331)
- Born
- March 9, 1949
- Home of record
- Salina, Kansas (Saline County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 8, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
78 names on the Wall carry the date May 8, 1968; 20 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 57E, Line 3
- MICHAEL JOSEPH FORDICorporal · May 8, 1968
- FRED SAMUEL FULLERTON JRPrivate First Class · May 8, 1968
- RICHARD GONZALEZSergeant · May 8, 1968
- CARL OSCAR PEARSON JRPrivate First Class · May 8, 1968
From Salina
- LLOYD DEAN LAKEPrivate First Class · January 15, 1966
- GARY DEAN NAILCorporal · April 3, 1966
- WILLIAM RUSSELL BELLER JRPrivate First Class · April 30, 1967
- KENNETH D WEISMaster Sergeant · September 13, 1967
- MICHAEL GENE PHILLIPSSpecialist Four · October 31, 1967
- THEODORE JANKE JRSergeant · May 19, 1968
- LEONARD KEITH STEWARTCorporal · July 21, 1968
- RONALD LEE MUEHLBERGPrivate First Class · August 12, 1968
- YALE REZIN DAVIS JRMajor · November 19, 1968
- GEAROLD LEE BRANDTPrivate First Class · June 10, 1969
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.