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GARY CRAIG PORT
Private First Class · U.S. Army
January 11, 1949 – February 13, 1968
Service recordGary Craig Port, of San Rafael, California, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on February 13, 1968, in Darlac Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 39E, Line 24 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 39E · Line 24
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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
- January 11, 1949
- Home of record
- San Rafael, California (Marin County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 13, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Darlac
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
60 names on the Wall carry the date February 13, 1968; he was the only one lost in Darlac Province that day. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 24 of its members that month.
He died in Darlac 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.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 39E, Line 24
- HARRY FRANK EDWARD PEEPLESSergeant · February 13, 1968
- VERNON POST JRLance Corporal · February 13, 1968
- STEVEN EDWARD REICHERTPrivate First Class · February 13, 1968
- AARON HENRY REIGLESergeant · February 13, 1968
Same unit, same day
- EUGENE MICHAEL CAMPIONSergeant · Panel 39E, Line 18
- JOSEPH D DAUGHTON JRPrivate First Class · Panel 39E, Line 19
- AARON HENRY REIGLESergeant · Panel 39E, Line 24
From San Rafael
- FRANK DENNIS KORNOVICHLance Corporal · April 27, 1966
- GEORGE ALFRED DOANESpecialist Four · May 31, 1967
- DAVID RICHARD LEHRPrivate · February 23, 1968
- HERBERT RAYMOND GRANTSergeant First Class · February 23, 1969
- RONALD LAWRENCE STORBOPrivate First Class · June 6, 1969
- THOMAS ANTONE CINCOTTAPrivate First Class · June 28, 1969
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.