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A Navy Swift boat patrols the Long Tàu River to keep the channel to Saigon open, December 1966.
A Navy Swift boat patrols the Long Tàu River to keep the channel to Saigon open, December 1966. Photo: PH1 V.H. McColley, U.S. Navy, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Gary Lee Conaway.

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GARY LEE CONAWAY

Petty Officer First Class · U.S. Navy

October 22, 1938 – October 24, 1967

Service record

Gary Lee Conaway, of Blue Mound, Illinois, served as a Petty Officer First Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on October 24, 1967, in Khanh Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 29. His name is inscribed on Panel 28E, Line 59 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 28E · Line 59

Position of Panel 28E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Navy
Rank
Petty Officer First Class (PO1)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Aviation Machinist's Mate (AD)
Born
October 22, 1938
Home of record
Blue Mound, Illinois (Macon County)

Casualty

Date of death
October 24, 1967
Age
29
Province
Khanh Hoa
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Drowning

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24 names on the Wall carry the date October 24, 1967; two of them were lost in Khanh Hoa Province. In October 1967, 906 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

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Also on Panel 28E, Line 59

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.