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GARY LIONEL VINAS
Captain · U.S. Army
December 16, 1937 – August 13, 1966
Service recordGary Lionel Vinas, of Sharpsville, Pennsylvania, served as a Captain in the U.S. Army. He died on August 13, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 28. His name is inscribed on Panel 10E, Line 2 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 10E · Line 2
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Captain (CPT)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Infantry Unit Commander (1542)
- Unit (as recorded)
- MACV ADVISORS
- Born
- December 16, 1937
- Home of record
- Sharpsville, Pennsylvania (Mercer County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 13, 1966
- Age
- 28
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
19 names on the Wall carry the date August 13, 1966. In August 1966, 501 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 7 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 10E, Line 2
- GARY LEE SARGENTSergeant · August 13, 1966
- BOBBY JOE SHOCKLEYSpecialist Four · August 13, 1966
- JOHN CALVIN SMITHPrivate First Class · August 13, 1966
- MICHAEL D WALLACEPrivate First Class · August 13, 1966
Same unit, same day
- DAVID RONALD DEVERS SRCaptain · Panel 9E, Line 132
- JOHN JOSEPH ONEILL JRMaster Sergeant · Panel 9E, Line 133
From Sharpsville
- PAUL EUGENE GOODPrivate First Class · June 19, 1967
- THEODORE HUBERT DALTONCorporal · November 1, 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.