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GARY LEE DOOSE
Private First Class · U.S. Army
August 18, 1948 – April 25, 1967
Service recordGary Lee Doose, of Houston, Texas, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on April 25, 1967, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 18E, Line 84 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 18E · Line 84
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- August 18, 1948
- Home of record
- Houston, Texas (Harris County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 25, 1967
- Age
- 18
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
32 names on the Wall carry the date April 25, 1967; three of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In April 1967, 887 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 61 of its members that month.
He died in Tây Ninh Province while Operation Junction City was under way. Operation Junction City (22 February–14 May 1967), in War Zone C along the Cambodian border, was the largest U.S. operation of the war to that time and included the only major American combat parachute assault of the war. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Also on Panel 18E, Line 84
- EARNEST LEE COXStaff Sergeant · April 25, 1967
- DICK DAVIS CULVERSergeant · April 25, 1967
- TERRANCE DONALD FRYESpecialist Four · April 25, 1967
- ROBERT LARRY WESKAMPCaptain · April 25, 1967
Same unit, same day
- WILLIAM ROYCE LATIMERPrivate First Class · Panel 18E, Line 86
- JAMES V LAWLORPrivate First Class · Panel 18E, Line 86
- JOSEPH M LINGLE JRFirst Lieutenant · Panel 18E, Line 86
- RICHARD CHESTER PRATTPrivate First Class · Panel 18E, Line 87
- THOMAS BOYD SHARPFirst Lieutenant · Panel 18E, Line 88
From Houston
- JOSEPH MICHAEL FAHEY JRCaptain · February 11, 1962
- JOHN F SHAUGHNESSY JRCaptain · February 3, 1963
- RICHARD DALE HILLAirman Second Class · December 6, 1963
- HUGHIE DARELL ADAMSMajor · January 7, 1964
- ALBERT LAWRENCE SHIMEKPrivate First Class · April 10, 1964
- BYRON CLARK STONECaptain · August 20, 1964
- JAMES EDWARD HAVEMANNWarrant Officer 1 · October 7, 1964
- ROBERT GRAHAM BELLMajor · May 16, 1965
- LEROY ANTHONY BOURGEOISPrivate First Class · June 18, 1965
- ROBERT FILMORE BATSONSergeant · August 18, 1965
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.