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GARY MICHAEL BOOE
Corporal · U.S. Army
June 5, 1949 – June 10, 1970
Service recordGary Michael Booe, of Harrisburg, North Carolina, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Army. He died on June 10, 1970, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 9W, Line 37 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 9W · Line 37
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
- Corporal (CPL)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Aircraft Structural Repairer (68G)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- June 5, 1949
- Home of record
- Harrisburg, North Carolina (Cabarrus County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 10, 1970
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
29 names on the Wall carry the date June 10, 1970; two of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In June 1970, 560 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 53 of its members that month.
Read the history
Also on Panel 9W, Line 37
- DAVID CONCEPCION-NIEVESSpecialist Four · June 10, 1970
- JAMES MIKE DAVISCorporal · June 10, 1970
- JAMES LOVES DELMONTSergeant Major · June 10, 1970
- LONNIE ALLEN DYKESPrivate First Class · June 10, 1970
Same unit, same day
- BIRCH UDELL STEMMONSSergeant · Panel 9W, Line 41
From Harrisburg
- THOMAS YORK OSBORNEFirst Lieutenant · February 14, 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.