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GARY DUANE FORTNER
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
November 22, 1946 – April 6, 1968
Service recordGary Duane Fortner, of Corpus Christi, Texas, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on April 6, 1968, in Tuyen Duc Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 48E, Line 26 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 48E · Line 26
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 Five (SP5)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- C CO 87 ENG BN 35 ENG GRP 18 ENG BDE
- Born
- November 22, 1946
- Home of record
- Corpus Christi, Texas (Multiple County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 6, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Tuyen Duc
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
79 names on the Wall carry the date April 6, 1968; three of them were lost in Tuyen Duc Province. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “C CO 87 ENG BN 35 ENG GRP 18 ENG BDE”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 48E, Line 26
- LEE SCOTT ADAMSSecond Lieutenant · April 6, 1968
- DALTON MAIN ESTEINCaptain · April 6, 1968
- ORONZO GEMMATICorporal · April 6, 1968
- BOBBY JOE GRAVELSpecialist Four · April 6, 1968
Same unit, same day
- WILLIAM MATT THOMPSONSergeant First Class · Panel 48E, Line 36
From Corpus Christi
- FAYBERT RAY BRADSHAWStaff Sergeant · July 20, 1965
- JOE THOMAS WELBORNChief Warrant Officer 2 · November 4, 1965
- WILLIAM A JENNINGS IIICorporal · December 13, 1965
- MIGUEL GARCIA JRPrivate First Class · April 22, 1966
- WILLIAM R MINDACHSpecialist Four · July 6, 1966
- BENITO PEREZFirst Sergeant · August 2, 1966
- RAUL FLORESLance Corporal · August 7, 1966
- JERRY PHILLIPSPetty Officer Second Class · August 11, 1966
- ALFREDO CASTANONPrivate First Class · September 24, 1966
- DWIGHT KING SATTERWHITEPrivate First Class · September 24, 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.