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GENE DELANO GROVER
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Marine Corps
November 9, 1939 – October 10, 1968
Service recordGene Delano Grover, of Orange Springs, Florida, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on October 10, 1968, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 28. His name is inscribed on Panel 41W, Line 39 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 41W · Line 39
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
- Staff Sergeant (SSGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantry Unit Leader (0369)
- Born
- November 9, 1939
- Home of record
- Orange Springs, Florida (Marion County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 10, 1968
- Age
- 28
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
31 names on the Wall carry the date October 10, 1968; three of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In October 1968, 821 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 41W, Line 39
- STANLEY GEORGE DENISOWSKISpecialist Four · October 10, 1968
- MICHAEL EUGENE EVANSCorporal · October 10, 1968
- ERISTEO GUTIERREZ JRSergeant · October 10, 1968
- JOHN WILLIAM ROBINSON JRSpecialist Four · October 10, 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.