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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Gary Eugene Grubbs.

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GARY EUGENE GRUBBS

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

June 19, 1949 – November 2, 1969

Service record

Gary Eugene Grubbs, of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on November 2, 1969, in Quang Duc Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 16W, Line 18 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 16W · Line 18

Position of Panel 16W 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
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Unit Supply Specialist (76Y)
Unit (as recorded)
1 FIELD FORCE
Born
June 19, 1949
Home of record
Winston-Salem, North Carolina (Forsyth County)

Casualty

Date of death
November 2, 1969
Age
20
Province
Quang Duc
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Grenade

Context · from the records

What was happening

27 names on the Wall carry the date November 2, 1969; ten of them were lost in Quang Duc Province. In November 1969, 660 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The unit recorded as “1 FIELD FORCE”, his unit in the record, lost 15 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 16W, Line 18

Same unit, same day

From Winston-Salem

All 41 names from Winston-Salem →

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.