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GARY STEPHEN HODGES
Private First Class · U.S. Army
June 25, 1948 – December 10, 1968
Service recordGary Stephen Hodges, of Greenville, North Carolina, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on December 10, 1968, in Long An Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 37W, Line 81 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 37W · Line 81
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- June 25, 1948
- Home of record
- Greenville, North Carolina (Pitt County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 10, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Long An
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
28 names on the Wall carry the date December 10, 1968; two of them were lost in Long An Province. In December 1968, 855 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 75 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 37W, Line 81
- BOYCE LEE HALLCorporal · December 10, 1968
- JOHN KING HOBSONHospitalman · December 10, 1968
- LATHAN HOUSTONPrivate First Class · December 10, 1968
- LAMONT JACKSONPrivate First Class · December 10, 1968
Same unit, same day
- THOMAS TODD CHAPMANPrivate First Class · Panel 37W, Line 79
- LATHAN HOUSTONPrivate First Class · Panel 37W, Line 81
- MELVIN DOUGLAS NELSONSergeant · Panel 37W, Line 83
- BOBBY CLYDE SNYDERSergeant · Panel 37W, Line 83
From Greenville
- TERRY WAYNE SUTTONPrivate First Class · February 24, 1968
- GRIFFIN ELI SCARBOROUGHCaptain · May 12, 1968
- WILLIE TUCKER JRLance Corporal · May 31, 1968
- ROBERT DOUGLAS MOYECorporal · August 22, 1968
- DONALD RAY ARNOLDPrivate First Class · March 27, 1969
- RONNIE GILMAN ALCOCKPetty Officer Second Class · May 17, 1969
- RICHARD JAMES PARNELLSergeant · July 21, 1969
- RICHARD KEY GRAYChief Warrant Officer 2 · September 14, 1969
- WALTER LEE WILSON JRSergeant · February 24, 1970
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.