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GARY EVERETT GRAVES
Petty Officer Third Class · U.S. Navy
April 10, 1948 – November 11, 1968
Service recordGary Everett Graves, of San Manuel, Arizona, served as a Petty Officer Third Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on November 11, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 39W, Line 48 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 39W · Line 48
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. Navy
- Rank
- Petty Officer Third Class (PO3)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Torpedoman's Mate (TM)
- Born
- April 10, 1948
- Home of record
- San Manuel, Arizona (Pinal County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 11, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
35 names on the Wall carry the date November 11, 1968; 11 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In November 1968, 918 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 39W, Line 48
- JOHN LESLIE BRATTONCorporal · November 11, 1968
- ALBERTO DUNES JRLance Corporal · November 11, 1968
- ROBERT RAYMOND FOLEY JRFireman · November 11, 1968
- STEPHEN LESLIE GLOREPrivate First Class · November 11, 1968
From San Manuel
- ALLEN WADE INGRAMLance Corporal · September 24, 1968
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.