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GARY LEE HENSLEY
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
April 20, 1947 – November 3, 1967
Service recordGary Lee Hensley, of Cassopolis, Michigan, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on November 3, 1967, in Darlac Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 29E, Line 15 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 29E · Line 15
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 Five (SP5)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Cannon Fire Direction Specialist (13E)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 4 INF DIV
- Born
- April 20, 1947
- Home of record
- Cassopolis, Michigan (Cass County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 3, 1967
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Darlac
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
24 names on the Wall carry the date November 3, 1967; five of them were lost in Darlac Province. In November 1967, 1,133 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 4th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 142 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 29E, Line 15
- ERNEST D FUNICELLI JRCorporal · November 3, 1967
- HANS HERBERT GRAUERTLieutenant (junior grade) · November 3, 1967
- CLEOPHIS HARRISONSergeant · November 3, 1967
- JERRY LEE JACKSONCorporal · November 3, 1967
Same unit, same day
- JAMES EDWARD ANDERSONSpecialist Four · Panel 29E, Line 13
- RANDALL WAYNE ERNSBERGERSpecialist Four · Panel 29E, Line 13
- FRANK J PAPASpecialist Four · Panel 29E, Line 16
- JAMES EMIL PAVLICEK JRFirst Lieutenant · Panel 29E, Line 17
- DAVID EUGENE THOMASWarrant Officer 1 · Panel 29E, Line 17
From Cassopolis
- WILLIAM EARL LOZIERSecond Lieutenant · February 2, 1968
- MICHAEL DARWIN PERSONETTELance Corporal · September 23, 1968
- WAYNE MORRIS BELLChief Warrant Officer 2 · October 12, 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.