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GARY LEE HALL
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
July 26, 1956 – May 15, 1975
Service recordGary Lee Hall, of Covington, Kentucky, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He was lost on May 15, 1975, in Cambodia, and was later declared dead. His name is inscribed on Panel 1W, Line 130 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 1W · Line 130
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
- Engineer Equipment Officer (1310)
- Unit (as recorded)
- E CO 2 BN 9 MAR
- Born
- July 26, 1956
- Home of record
- Covington, Kentucky (Kenton County)
Casualty
- Date of loss
- May 15, 1975
- Country
- Cambodia
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Declared Dead
- Circumstance
- Aircraft Crash — crew
- Incident
- Uss Mayaguez Capture
- First reported
- Missing in action
- Remains
- Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record
Context · from the records
What was happening
18 names on the Wall carry the date May 15, 1975. In May 1975, 42 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “E CO 2 BN 9 MAR”, his unit in the record, lost 3 of its members that month.
He died in Cambodia while the Mayaguez incident was under way. After Khmer Rouge forces seized the U.S. merchant ship Mayaguez in May 1975, Marines assaulted Koh Tang island; their names are the last on the Wall.
His remains had not been recovered when the 2008 record was compiled. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency continues to search for Americans still missing from the war; families can find case information through dpaa.mil.
Read the history
Also on Panel 1W, Line 130
- GREGORY SCOTT COPENHAVERLance Corporal · May 15, 1975
- BERNARD GAUSE JRPetty Officer First Class · May 15, 1975
- JOSEPH N HARGROVELance Corporal · May 15, 1975
- KELTON RENA TURNERPrivate First Class · May 15, 1975
Same unit, same day
- JOSEPH N HARGROVELance Corporal · Panel 1W, Line 130
- DANNY G MARSHALLPrivate · Panel 1W, Line 131
From Covington
- WILLIAM JOSEPH GALLAGHERPrivate First Class · October 13, 1965
- LOUIS R RANDALLPrivate First Class · September 25, 1966
- CARL WILLIAM MUELLERSpecialist Four · February 13, 1967
- LOUIS RAY SOWARDSpecialist Four · February 15, 1967
- DONATUS JOSEPH GEILENCorporal · February 28, 1967
- JAMES LOUIS ANTEFirst Lieutenant · September 3, 1967
- FRANK BELLEW DUNFORD IIIStaff Sergeant · October 22, 1967
- JEFFREY SCOTT AKERHospitalman · January 18, 1968
- THOMAS HOWARD RETSCHULTELance Corporal · January 21, 1968
- SAMUEL GREEN HURRYSpecialist Four · February 2, 1968
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.