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GARRY LYNN UPLINGER
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
August 4, 1949 – May 18, 1969
Service recordGarry Lynn Uplinger, of Cambridge, Ohio, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on May 18, 1969, in Long Khanh Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 24W, Line 50 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 24W · Line 50
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
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Light Air Defense Artillery Crewmember (16F)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 92 FIELD FORCE
- Born
- August 4, 1949
- Home of record
- Cambridge, Ohio (Guernsey County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 18, 1969
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Long Khanh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
81 names on the Wall carry the date May 18, 1969; 14 of them were lost in Long Khanh Province. In May 1969, 1,456 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “92 FIELD FORCE”, his unit in the record, lost 4 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 24W, Line 50
- OTHA THOMAS SPRIGGS JRCaptain · May 18, 1969
- DANA MICHAEL SYKESSergeant · May 18, 1969
- GEORGE EDWARD TACKETTSpecialist Four · May 18, 1969
- GARY RAY TROWERLance Corporal · May 18, 1969
Same unit, same day
- LARRY LAMAR HOLMESCorporal · Panel 24W, Line 43
From Cambridge
- JOSEPH LEON KANEMaster Sergeant · April 4, 1966
- CARL ROSS HARBIN JRSpecialist Four · August 25, 1966
- CHARLES M WAYTSpecialist Four · February 15, 1967
- EMORY DAVID VOORHIESCorporal · June 9, 1968
- ROBERT ARTHUR AUSMUSGunnery Sergeant · July 5, 1968
- JOHN EDWARD LEASUREPrivate First Class · November 14, 1969
- JAMES WILLIAM REEDMajor · July 24, 1970
- CLIFFORD EUGENE BENCHSpecialist Four · March 16, 1971
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.