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GARY JAMES FUQUA
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
October 18, 1950 – March 16, 1971
Service recordGary James Fuqua, of South Fork, West Virginia, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on March 16, 1971, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 4W, Line 52 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 4W · Line 52
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
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- October 18, 1950
- Home of record
- South Fork, West Virginia (Hardy County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 16, 1971
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Drowning
Context · from the records
What was happening
Ten names on the Wall carry the date March 16, 1971; two of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In March 1971, 429 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 77 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 4W, Line 52
- CLYDE THOMASCorporal · March 15, 1971
- CLIFFORD EUGENE BENCHSpecialist Four · March 16, 1971
- JAMES LEE GETTERPrivate · March 16, 1971
- LOYD VAN MCCARTHY JRCaptain · March 16, 1971
Same unit, same day
- LOYD VAN MCCARTHY JRCaptain · Panel 4W, Line 52
- CHARLES DAVID ALLEN JRCaptain · Panel 4W, Line 53
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.