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FRANCIS GARFIELD GRAY
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
April 25, 1947 – April 20, 1968
Service recordFrancis Garfield Gray, of Laurel, Maryland, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on April 20, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 51E, Line 7 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 51E · Line 7
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- April 25, 1947
- Home of record
- Laurel, Maryland (Prince George's County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 20, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
52 names on the Wall carry the date April 20, 1968; 27 of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 189 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 51E, Line 7
- JOHN MATTHEW GOODRICHPrivate First Class · April 20, 1968
- LARRY EUGENE GOSWICKSpecialist Four · April 20, 1968
- JERRY ROE GRUBBSPrivate First Class · April 20, 1968
- ROBERT CARLBERN HAWESCorporal · April 20, 1968
Same unit, same day
- ROME EDWARD DIMMERLINGPrivate First Class · Panel 51E, Line 6
- JOHN MATTHEW GOODRICHPrivate First Class · Panel 51E, Line 7
- LARRY EUGENE GOSWICKSpecialist Four · Panel 51E, Line 7
- JERRY ROE GRUBBSPrivate First Class · Panel 51E, Line 7
- CHARLIE MIZZELLE JERNIGANSpecialist Four · Panel 51E, Line 8
- JESUS MARTINEZPrivate First Class · Panel 51E, Line 9
- DAVID J MORENOPrivate First Class · Panel 51E, Line 9
- CLAUDE MCCAN JRPrivate First Class · Panel 51E, Line 10
- TERRY WARD MOTTPrivate First Class · Panel 51E, Line 10
- JERALD DAVID SWANPrivate First Class · Panel 51E, Line 13
- DARRYL CHARLES LINTNERPrivate First Class · Panel 51E, Line 15
- BURNELL WILLIAMS JRSpecialist Four · Panel 51E, Line 15
From Laurel
- JAMES BRUCE OKANELance Corporal · August 24, 1965
- STEVEN ROSS SHERMANPrivate First Class · July 26, 1966
- JOHN JOSEPH CHASELance Corporal · June 7, 1967
- ALVAH WORRELL HENSON JRPrivate First Class · November 17, 1968
- SAMUEL LOUIS WILLIAMS JRSpecialist Four · July 5, 1969
- LEONARD MORGANSpecialist Four · May 31, 1970
- JOHN RAYMOND POELieutenant Commander · August 4, 1970
- JAMES LOSPINUSOStaff Sergeant · January 10, 1972
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.