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GARY CLIFTON EATON
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
May 22, 1949 – May 27, 1970
Service recordGary Clifton Eaton, of Belews Creek, North Carolina, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on May 27, 1970, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 10W, Line 108 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 10W · Line 108
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Armor Reconnaissance Specialist (11D)
- Unit (as recorded)
- AMERICAL DIV
- Born
- May 22, 1949
- Home of record
- Belews Creek, North Carolina (Forsyth County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 27, 1970
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Quang Tin
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
20 names on the Wall carry the date May 27, 1970; eight of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In May 1970, 917 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The Americal Division, his unit in the record, lost 25 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 10W, Line 108
- DAVID JOHN COMBSSpecialist Five · May 27, 1970
- JOSEPH WILLIAM CRARYPrivate First Class · May 27, 1970
- WILLIE EDWARD ELSENBURGSpecialist Six · May 27, 1970
- CHARLES GRADY FLOYDPrivate First Class · May 27, 1970
Same unit, same day
- CHARLES GRADY FLOYDPrivate First Class · Panel 10W, Line 108
- ALAN HUGH PARKSCorporal · Panel 10W, Line 110
- LARRY ALLAN RIPPESpecialist Four · Panel 10W, Line 110
From Belews Creek
- LARRY STEVEN MUSTINSpecialist Five · May 10, 1972
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.