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GARY ROY GOUDY
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
February 16, 1940 – November 22, 1968
Service recordGary Roy Goudy, of Powhatan Point, Ohio, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on November 22, 1968, in Chau Doc Province, South Vietnam, at age 28. His name is inscribed on Panel 38W, Line 35 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 38W · Line 35
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
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Radio Operator (05B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- February 16, 1940
- Home of record
- Powhatan Point, Ohio (Belmont County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 22, 1968
- Age
- 28
- Province
- Chau Doc
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
40 names on the Wall carry the date November 22, 1968; he was the only one lost in Chau Doc Province that day. In November 1968, 918 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 11 of its members that month.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 38W, Line 35
- DONALD LEE FORDSpecialist Five · November 22, 1968
- WILLIE CHARLES L HAMILTONPrivate First Class · November 22, 1968
- PATRICK RAYMOND HENDRICKSONLance Corporal · November 22, 1968
- TONY GENE HUBBARDPrivate First Class · November 22, 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.