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FRANCIS GARY GERCZ JR
Major · U.S. Army
January 25, 1937 – January 25, 1968
Service recordFrancis Gary Gercz JR, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, served as a Major in the U.S. Army. He died on January 25, 1968, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 31. His name is inscribed on Panel 35E, Line 32 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 35E · Line 32
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Major (MAJ)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Civil Affairs Officer (G5, S5) (8105)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 INF DIV
- Born
- January 25, 1937
- Home of record
- Milwaukee, Wisconsin (Milwaukee County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 25, 1968
- Age
- 31
- Province
- Binh Duong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
38 names on the Wall carry the date January 25, 1968; seven of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In January 1968, 1,546 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 37 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 35E, Line 32
- PHILLIP EUGENE GARVERCorporal · January 25, 1968
- ARTHUR CHARLES GRANGESecond Lieutenant · January 25, 1968
- EDWARD WILLIAM HEIFNERPrivate First Class · January 25, 1968
- JOSEPH ALLEN KELNHOFERPrivate First Class · January 25, 1968
Same unit, same day
- MICHAEL STEPHEN ROMANOSecond Lieutenant · Panel 35E, Line 34
- KENNETH ROBERT TRIERSpecialist Four · Panel 35E, Line 35
From Milwaukee
- TOM JOSEPH CRESSLieutenant · January 6, 1961
- ROBERT BURGERTSergeant · February 13, 1963
- PETER MATTHEW FEIERABENDPrivate First Class · February 16, 1964
- THADDEUS ZAJACSpecialist Four · September 27, 1965
- JAMES CALVIN WARDPrivate First Class · October 11, 1965
- TIMOTHY HOLTON JOHNSONPrivate First Class · November 6, 1965
- RICHARD WILLIAM SCHWENDLERCorporal · November 16, 1965
- MICHAEL ALFRED GRUBERPrivate First Class · December 5, 1965
- RICHARD JOSEPH BRUNKEPrivate First Class · December 14, 1965
- MICHAEL PETER MORANPrivate First Class · January 9, 1966
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.