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GARY LEE PAYNE
Private First Class · U.S. Army
September 28, 1949 – January 22, 1969
Service recordGary Lee Payne, of Tucker, Georgia, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on January 22, 1969, in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 34W, Line 61 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 34W · Line 61
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)
- 198 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- September 28, 1949
- Home of record
- Tucker, Georgia (De Kalb County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 22, 1969
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Ngai
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
40 names on the Wall carry the date January 22, 1969; six of them were lost in Quảng Ngãi Province. In January 1969, 985 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 198th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 28 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 34W, Line 61
- VIRGIL JESSIE ROBERTSSpecialist Four · January 22, 1969
- DOUGLAS ALAN ROSSSergeant · January 22, 1969
- WILLIAM LUKE STJOHNPrivate First Class · January 22, 1969
- JAMES DAVID STUESSELStaff Sergeant · January 22, 1969
Same unit, same day
- MARVIN LE ROY ERICKSONPrivate First Class · Panel 34W, Line 63
- TYRONE MELVIN WRIGHTPrivate First Class · Panel 34W, Line 63
From Tucker
- JERRY VANOID DAVISLance Corporal · July 29, 1967
- JERRY DONNIE REEDLance Corporal · August 13, 1969
- GLENN CHRISTIE DUNCANStaff Sergeant · May 3, 1970
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.