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Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969.
Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969. Photo: U.S. Marine Corps, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Gary Joseph Webb.

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GARY JOSEPH WEBB

Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps

October 10, 1950 – June 22, 1969

Service record

Gary Joseph Webb, of Quincy, Massachusetts, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on June 22, 1969, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 22W, Line 114 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 22W · Line 114

Position of Panel 22W 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. Marine Corps
Rank
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Rifleman (0311)
Born
October 10, 1950
Home of record
Quincy, Massachusetts (Norfolk County)

Casualty

Date of death
June 22, 1969
Age
18
Province
Quang Nam
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Died of Wounds
Circumstance
Grenade

Context · from the records

What was happening

20 names on the Wall carry the date June 22, 1969; four of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In June 1969, 1,246 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 22W, Line 114

From Quincy

All 27 names from Quincy →

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.