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GARRITY VOGEL
Private First Class · U.S. Army
February 12, 1942 – March 6, 1968
Service recordGarrity Vogel, of Chaska, Minnesota, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on March 6, 1968, in Kontum Province, South Vietnam, at age 26. His name is inscribed on Panel 43E, Line 37 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 43E · Line 37
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. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Armor Reconnaissance Specialist (11D)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- February 12, 1942
- Home of record
- Chaska, Minnesota (Carver County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 6, 1968
- Age
- 26
- Province
- Kontum
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
140 names on the Wall carry the date March 6, 1968; four of them were lost in Kon Tum Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 69 of its members that month.
He died in Kon Tum 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.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 43E, Line 37
- ARLIE TERRYStaff Sergeant · March 6, 1968
- LOUIS JOSEPH TONERHospitalman · March 6, 1968
- ROBERT LEE VICKERSLance Corporal · March 6, 1968
- HOWARD BERT WALDRONMaster Sergeant · March 6, 1968
Same unit, same day
- CHARLES RICHARD BEALLSpecialist Four · Panel 43E, Line 13
- WARREN GENE BROWNPrivate First Class · Panel 43E, Line 15
- GARY LEE JATICHSpecialist Four · Panel 43E, Line 23
- DAVID MICHAEL SCHUHSergeant · Panel 43E, Line 33
From Chaska
- LARRY EUGENE WILSONPrivate First Class · June 17, 1967
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.