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GARY ELDON PERKINS
Private First Class · U.S. Army
April 1, 1947 – May 22, 1966
Service recordGary Eldon Perkins, of Whitwell, Tennessee, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on May 22, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 7E, Line 103 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 7E · Line 103
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
- Pioneer (12A)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- April 1, 1947
- Home of record
- Whitwell, Tennessee (Marion County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 22, 1966
- Age
- 19
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
22 names on the Wall carry the date May 22, 1966. In May 1966, 595 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 93 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 7E, Line 103
- RALEIGH LEE GODLEYPetty Officer Second Class · May 22, 1966
- RICHARD FRANKLYN LEASESpecialist Four · May 22, 1966
- GERALD ERNEST METCALFPrivate First Class · May 22, 1966
- ALLEN JEROME RITTERPrivate First Class · May 22, 1966
Same unit, same day
- JOSEPH WILSONSergeant · Panel 7E, Line 104
From Whitwell
- CLIFTON MOSESPrivate First Class · April 7, 1968
- DILLARD RAY LAYNEPrivate First Class · July 3, 1968
- GARY BREWSTER KILGORESpecialist Four · August 24, 1968
- RONALD DAVID MELTONPrivate First Class · January 25, 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.