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GARY LEE LOVE
Private First Class · U.S. Army
May 26, 1947 – August 28, 1967
Service recordGary Lee Love, of Defiance, Ohio, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on August 28, 1967, in Hua Nghia Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 25E, Line 58 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 25E · Line 58
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- May 26, 1947
- Home of record
- Defiance, Ohio (Defiance County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 28, 1967
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Hua Nghia
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
28 names on the Wall carry the date August 28, 1967; he was the only one lost in Hua Nghia Province that day. In August 1967, 683 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 41 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 25E, Line 58
- RAYMOND PATRICK LINKSergeant · August 28, 1967
- BERNARD MERLE LUSKPrivate First Class · August 28, 1967
- JULIAN MENDEZSpecialist Four · August 28, 1967
- LARRY LEE SEXTONSpecialist Four · August 28, 1967
From Defiance
- KENNETH ERROL GRAHAMPrivate First Class · November 8, 1965
- EDWARD DEAN HANCOCKSpecialist Four · November 22, 1967
- HERMAN A HESSELSCHWARDTPrivate First Class · April 24, 1968
- JAMES MICHAEL BAKERCorporal · September 14, 1968
- MICHAEL LERO BATTStaff Sergeant · March 16, 1969
- ROGER ERNEST BEHNFELDTCaptain · August 19, 1972
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.