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Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969.
Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969. Photo: U.S. Marine Corps, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Gary Mark Dominique.

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GARY MARK DOMINIQUE

Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps

February 24, 1950 – May 14, 1970

Service record

Gary Mark Dominique, of West Palm Beach, Florida, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on May 14, 1970, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 10W, Line 40 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 10W · Line 40

Position of Panel 10W 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. Marine Corps
Rank
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Machinegunner (0331)
Born
February 24, 1950
Home of record
West Palm Beach, Florida (Palm Beach County)

Casualty

Date of death
May 14, 1970
Age
20
Province
Quang Nam
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Died of Wounds
Circumstance
Grenade

Context · from the records

What was happening

34 names on the Wall carry the date May 14, 1970; three of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In May 1970, 917 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 10W, Line 40

From West Palm Beach

All 27 names from West Palm Beach →

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.