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GARRY LEE BURGESS
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
November 11, 1943 – June 19, 1966
Service recordGarry Lee Burgess, of Pickens, West Virginia, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on June 19, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 8E, Line 62 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 8E · Line 62
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- November 11, 1943
- Home of record
- Pickens, West Virginia (Randolph County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 19, 1966
- Age
- 22
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
Eight names on the Wall carry the date June 19, 1966. In June 1966, 595 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 73 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 8E, Line 62
- EDWIN RAY TRAVNICEKCorporal · June 18, 1966
- RICHARD ALLEN BRADLEYPrivate First Class · June 19, 1966
- ROBERT WALTER GOLDENCorporal · June 19, 1966
- VINCENT GERALD ST MOELLERPrivate First Class · June 19, 1966
Same unit, same day
- VINCENT GERALD ST MOELLERPrivate First Class · Panel 8E, Line 62
- JOSEPH STANLEY VESELY JRSpecialist Four · Panel 8E, Line 63
From Pickens
- STEVEN P MOLLOHANStaff Sergeant · February 6, 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.