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GARY RAY SCHAFER
Lance Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps
March 18, 1946 – September 21, 1967
Service recordGary Ray Schafer, of Bel Air, Maryland, served as a Lance Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on September 21, 1967, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 26E, Line 108 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 26E · Line 108
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
- Lance Corporal (LCPL)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Machinegunner (0331)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 4 MAR 3 MARDIV
- Born
- March 18, 1946
- Home of record
- Bel Air, Maryland (Harford County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 21, 1967
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
61 names on the Wall carry the date September 21, 1967; 44 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In September 1967, 929 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in Quảng Trị Province while the siege of Con Thien was under way. Through September and October 1967, North Vietnamese artillery across the Demilitarized Zone pounded the Marine outpost at Con Thien and the bases along the DMZ in Quảng Trị Province. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Also on Panel 26E, Line 108
- WILLIE GREENELance Corporal · September 21, 1967
- CLARENCE DAVID SHEIBLEYPrivate First Class · September 21, 1967
- REGINALD EDWARD SMITHSergeant · September 21, 1967
- RICHARD EUGENE SUTHERLANDHospitalman · September 21, 1967
From Bel Air
- OSCAR EDMOND COOPERPrivate First Class · November 21, 1965
- MONTY NORRIS WILSONPrivate First Class · August 1, 1967
- MAXIMILIAN HEINRI SIMMETHMajor · January 31, 1968
- WILLIAM FRANK JOHNSONWarrant Officer 1 · January 11, 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.