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GARY NEIL FOSTER
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
June 28, 1949 – January 26, 1968
Service recordGary Neil Foster, of Orem, Utah, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on January 26, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 35E, Line 38 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 35E · Line 38
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
- Field Radio Operator (2531)
- Born
- June 28, 1949
- Home of record
- Orem, Utah (Utah County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 26, 1968
- Age
- 18
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
33 names on the Wall carry the date January 26, 1968; 12 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In January 1968, 1,546 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in Quảng Trị Province while the siege of Khe Sanh was under way. From 21 January 1968, North Vietnamese divisions besieged the Marine combat base at Khe Sanh and its hill outposts near the Laotian border for 77 days, while U.S. aircraft dropped some 100,000 tons of bombs around it. Operation Pegasus reached the base on 8 April. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Read the history
Also on Panel 35E, Line 38
- DWIGHT THOMAS DENNINGPrivate First Class · January 26, 1968
- MICHAEL EDWARD DUNNLieutenant Commander · January 26, 1968
- PAUL DAVID EKARTPetty Officer Third Class · January 26, 1968
- ROBERT DON FAIRESSpecialist Four · January 26, 1968
From Orem
- RAYMOND ALEXANDER DAVISPrivate First Class · February 11, 1966
- ROBERT MITCHELL SAWAYACorporal · December 15, 1967
- JEFFERY ALAN GOSSLance Corporal · May 24, 1968
- KENT CHILDS TAYLORSpecialist Four · May 14, 1970
- RALPH JIM CHIPMANCaptain · December 27, 1972
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.