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GARY KEN NEWMAN
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
April 23, 1945 – March 25, 1967
Service recordGary Ken Newman, of Ft Worth, Texas, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on March 25, 1967, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 17E, Line 46 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 17E · Line 46
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
- April 23, 1945
- Home of record
- Ft Worth, Texas (Tarrant County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 25, 1967
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
36 names on the Wall carry the date March 25, 1967; 13 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In March 1967, 1,091 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 17E, Line 46
- LOYD LINDAL MCBROOMSergeant · March 25, 1967
- DOUGLAS EUGENE MOORESergeant · March 25, 1967
- JOHN WAYNE MOWERFirst Lieutenant · March 25, 1967
- FRANKIE DON WADESpecialist Four · March 25, 1967
From Ft Worth
- GEORGE MARKOSCaptain · February 7, 1965
- CHARLES M DANSBYCaptain · April 24, 1965
- JACK WILTON WEATHERBYCaptain · July 29, 1965
- PAUL WAYNE MANSIRPrivate First Class · September 11, 1965
- JAMES EDWARD THOMASPrivate First Class · October 3, 1965
- DONALD JAY TANNERLance Corporal · December 4, 1965
- DONALD REY HAWLEYCaptain · December 17, 1965
- OTHA THEANDER THOMPSONCorporal · August 24, 1965
- HARVEY WAYNE JONESPrivate First Class · March 4, 1966
- LEWIS DOUGLAS BELLMajor · March 5, 1966
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.