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GARY LEE GAINER
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
December 3, 1947 – December 12, 1970
Service recordGary Lee Gainer, of Pineville, West Virginia, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on December 12, 1970, in Gia Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 6W, Line 116 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 6W · Line 116
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
- Regular
- Occupation
- Watercraft Engineer (61C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- US ARMY REP OF VIETNAM
- Born
- December 3, 1947
- Home of record
- Pineville, West Virginia (Wyoming County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 12, 1970
- Age
- 23
- Province
- Gia Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Drowning
Context · from the records
What was happening
13 names on the Wall carry the date December 12, 1970; he was the only one lost in Gia Dinh Province that day. In December 1970, 271 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “US ARMY REP OF VIETNAM”, his unit in the record, lost 29 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 6W, Line 116
- ROGER ALAN BARNHARTLance Corporal · December 12, 1970
- THOMAS CHARLES CISARCorporal · December 12, 1970
- BARRY EDWIN CLARKPrivate First Class · December 12, 1970
- THOMAS ALLEN DUCKETTMajor · December 12, 1970
Same unit, same day
- JOHNNY DELBERT VERSCHEURESpecialist Four · Panel 6W, Line 117
From Pineville
- JAMES LEROY SMITHFirst Lieutenant · February 15, 1971
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.