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Troopers of the 2nd Battalion, 503rd Infantry, 173rd Airborne Brigade, watch a UH-1D land, March 1970.
Troopers of the 2nd Battalion, 503rd Infantry, 173rd Airborne Brigade, watch a UH-1D land, March 1970. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Gary Allen Warner.

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GARY ALLEN WARNER

Private First Class · U.S. Army

October 25, 1948 – December 14, 1968

Service record

Gary Allen Warner, of Jerry City, Ohio, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on December 14, 1968, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 36W, Line 24 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 36W · Line 24

Position of Panel 36W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
173 AIRBORNE BDE
Born
October 25, 1948
Home of record
Jerry City, Ohio (Wood County)

Casualty

Date of death
December 14, 1968
Age
20
Province
Binh Dinh
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Other Accident

Context · from the records

What was happening

23 names on the Wall carry the date December 14, 1968; two of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In December 1968, 855 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 17 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 36W, Line 24

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.