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GARRY EUGENE KING
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Marine Corps
April 14, 1941 – March 18, 1968
Service recordGarry Eugene King, of Fairfax, Missouri, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on March 18, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 26. His name is inscribed on Panel 45E, Line 32 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 45E · Line 32
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
- Staff Sergeant (SSGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantry Unit Leader (0369)
- Born
- April 14, 1941
- Home of record
- Fairfax, Missouri (Atchison County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 18, 1968
- Age
- 26
- 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 32
- KENNETH EUGENE WILLARD JRPrivate First Class · March 18, 1968
- HOWARD KEITH WILLIAMSLieutenant Colonel · March 18, 1968
- CLINTON CARL WUSTERBARTHCorporal · March 18, 1968
- DAVID HUGH WYRICKLieutenant · March 18, 1968
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.