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GARY LEE CROSS
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
September 8, 1949 – April 9, 1969
Service recordGary Lee Cross, of Hopkins, Missouri, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on April 9, 1969, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 27W, Line 44 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 27W · Line 44
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
- September 8, 1949
- Home of record
- Hopkins, Missouri (Nodaway County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 9, 1969
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
18 names on the Wall carry the date April 9, 1969; four of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In April 1969, 1,023 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 83 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 27W, Line 44
- ROGER BROWNPrivate First Class · April 9, 1969
- THOMAS LOUIS BROWNPetty Officer Third Class · April 9, 1969
- RONALD CLARENCE CONLEYPrivate First Class · April 9, 1969
- DAVID REID CROW IVWarrant Officer 1 · April 9, 1969
Same unit, same day
- DELMAR CLAUDE DENNISSpecialist Four · Panel 27W, Line 45
- BRUCE THOMAS KINGFirst Lieutenant · Panel 27W, Line 45
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.