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GARY GENE EVANS
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
December 22, 1946 – June 13, 1968
Service recordGary Gene Evans, of Heyburn, Idaho, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on June 13, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 57W, Line 8 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 57W · Line 8
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
- Utility Helicopter Repairer (67N)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
- Born
- December 22, 1946
- Home of record
- Heyburn, Idaho (Minidoka County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 13, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — crew
Context · from the records
What was happening
48 names on the Wall carry the date June 13, 1968; two of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In June 1968, 1,257 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 66 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 57W, Line 8
- JOHN CHARLES CUPPCorporal · June 13, 1968
- JEFFREY LYNN DARGANPrivate First Class · June 13, 1968
- WAYNE AUSTIN DECKERPrivate First Class · June 13, 1968
- NORMAN ELLIOTT LODHOLMPrivate First Class · June 13, 1968
Same unit, same day
- NORMAN ELLIOTT LODHOLMPrivate First Class · Panel 57W, Line 8
- EDMOND JUNIOR GREERCorporal · Panel 57W, Line 9
- JAMES LEWIS JENNINGSPrivate First Class · Panel 57W, Line 10
- KENNETH OSCAR PALMERSergeant First Class · Panel 57W, Line 12
- CRAIG LEE SEIDELSpecialist Four · Panel 57W, Line 13
- MILO HERSEY STRATTONSergeant · Panel 57W, Line 14
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.