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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Gail Francis Wilson.

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GAIL FRANCIS WILSON

Lieutenant Colonel · U.S. Army

May 21, 1928 – September 3, 1967

Service record

Gail Francis Wilson, of Roswell, Texas, served as a Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Army. He died on September 3, 1967, in South Vietnam, at age 39. His name is inscribed on Panel 25E, Line 94 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 25E · Line 94

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Lieutenant Colonel (LTC)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Infantry Unit Commander (1542)
Unit (as recorded)
4 INF DIV
Born
May 21, 1928
Home of record
Roswell, Texas (Bosque County)

Casualty

Date of death
September 3, 1967
Age
39
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)

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What was happening

20 names on the Wall carry the date September 3, 1967. In September 1967, 929 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 4th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 26 of its members that month.

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Also on Panel 25E, Line 94

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.