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EDDIE DEAN GANT
Lance Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps
January 2, 1949 – March 18, 1968
Service recordEddie Dean Gant, of Grenada, Mississippi, served as a Lance Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on March 18, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 45E, Line 21 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 45E · Line 21
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
- Lance Corporal (LCPL)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- January 2, 1949
- Home of record
- Grenada, Mississippi (Grenada County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 18, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
82 names on the Wall carry the date March 18, 1968; 11 of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in Thừa Thiên 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 45E, Line 21
- ROBERT THOMAS FERRELLIPrivate First Class · March 18, 1968
- ROBERT GENE FISHERPetty Officer First Class · March 18, 1968
- LARRY LEE FITZSIMMONSFirst Lieutenant · March 18, 1968
- GRADY GANTT JRSergeant · March 18, 1968
From Grenada
- SAMMIE LEE WATTPrivate First Class · April 1, 1967
- LLOYD HENRY KENTSpecialist Four · January 12, 1968
- JAMES ALBERT AMOSPrivate First Class · July 27, 1969
- JAMES LENVER SELDONPrivate First Class · September 16, 1969
- STANTON GERALD SARGENTCorporal · April 21, 1971
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.