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GARY WAYNE WRIGHT
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
November 5, 1950 – May 3, 1969
Service recordGary Wayne Wright, of Hayes, Virginia, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on May 3, 1969, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 26W, Line 109 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 26W · Line 109
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
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- November 5, 1950
- Home of record
- Hayes, Virginia (Gloucester County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 3, 1969
- Age
- 18
- Province
- Binh Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
21 names on the Wall carry the date May 3, 1969; two of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In May 1969, 1,456 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 29 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 26W, Line 109
- EARL PATRICK SNOWSpecialist Four · May 3, 1969
- LEMUEL EBB TERRELLSergeant · May 3, 1969
- MICHAEL THOMAS ADAMSCaptain · May 4, 1969
- CHARLES HYMAN BESTPrivate · May 4, 1969
Same unit, same day
- PAUL JONESSpecialist Four · Panel 26W, Line 107
From Hayes
- FRANCIS JOHN MELLAR JRSpecialist Five · April 13, 1969
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.