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GARY HAROLD GARNER
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
May 18, 1949 – January 6, 1970
Service recordGary Harold Garner, of Chillicothe, Missouri, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on January 6, 1970, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 14W, Line 3 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 14W · Line 3
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Assaultman (0351)
- Born
- May 18, 1949
- Home of record
- Chillicothe, Missouri (Livingston County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 6, 1970
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
26 names on the Wall carry the date January 6, 1970; 16 of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In January 1970, 529 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 14W, Line 3
- RICHARD F BRANT JRPrivate First Class · January 6, 1970
- CLAIR BERNARD BUTZSergeant First Class · January 6, 1970
- CHARLES CLARK CHAPINSpecialist Four · January 6, 1970
- JOHN ALBERT DEROOSpecialist Four · January 6, 1970
From Chillicothe
- JOSEPH VAUGHN MURRAYLieutenant (junior grade) · February 18, 1966
- DAVID WAYNE UTLEYPrivate First Class · February 22, 1966
- ROBERT DEWAYNE MCCOWNPrivate First Class · November 19, 1966
- THOMAS EDWARD BONDERERSergeant · May 1, 1968
- KENNETH GENE EWINGSpecialist Four · November 22, 1969
- GERRY DON COULTSpecialist Four · July 22, 1971
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.