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GARY NOLAN SHY
First Lieutenant · U.S. Army
November 29, 1942 – March 8, 1968
Service recordGary Nolan Shy, of Portsmouth, Ohio, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on March 8, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 43E, Line 59 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 43E · Line 59
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
- First Lieutenant (1LT)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Air Observation Pilot (1981)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
- Born
- November 29, 1942
- Home of record
- Portsmouth, Ohio (Scioto County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 8, 1968
- Age
- 25
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — crew
Context · from the records
What was happening
68 names on the Wall carry the date March 8, 1968; 27 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 104 of its members that month.
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 43E, Line 59
- WILLIAM T PUFFENBARGERPrivate First Class · March 8, 1968
- MELVIN RENSELLAER RANSONPrivate First Class · March 8, 1968
- DAVID MACK REYNOLDSPrivate First Class · March 8, 1968
- MARVIN NELSON RICHARDSONSpecialist Five · March 8, 1968
Same unit, same day
- RUSSELL LEWIS WALLACEWarrant Officer 1 · Panel 43E, Line 63
From Portsmouth
- GLEN THOMAS HOBBSSergeant · March 6, 1968
- STEPHEN EARL CRAWFORDPrivate First Class · May 16, 1968
- WILLIAM LOUIS DEBOSpecialist Four · August 11, 1968
- TED RAY JAMISONPrivate First Class · September 19, 1968
- JERRY RUSSELL HOWERTONCorporal · February 23, 1969
- TIMOTHY PAUL BAUERCorporal · February 26, 1969
- CLYDE SAMPSON EVANSSpecialist Five · May 21, 1969
- CHARLES RONALD EGGERSSpecialist Four · December 31, 1971
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.