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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Gary Lynn Hobbs.

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GARY LYNN HOBBS

Captain · U.S. Army

December 29, 1939 – March 20, 1967

Service record

Gary Lynn Hobbs, of Corpus Christi, Texas, served as a Captain in the U.S. Army. He died on March 20, 1967, in Long An Province, South Vietnam, at age 27. His name is inscribed on Panel 16E, Line 122 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 16E · Line 122

Position of Panel 16E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Captain (CPT)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Infantry Unit Commander (1542)
Unit (as recorded)
9 INF DIV
Born
December 29, 1939
Home of record
Corpus Christi, Texas (Multiple County)

Casualty

Date of death
March 20, 1967
Age
27
Province
Long An
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

48 names on the Wall carry the date March 20, 1967; 11 of them were lost in Long An Province. In March 1967, 1,091 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 82 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 16E, Line 122

Same unit, same day

From Corpus Christi

All 99 names from Corpus Christi →

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.