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GENE FRANCIS LEE
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
November 8, 1946 – December 13, 1967
Service recordGene Francis Lee, of Green Springs, Ohio, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on December 13, 1967, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 31E, Line 88 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 31E · Line 88
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- November 8, 1946
- Home of record
- Green Springs, Ohio (Multiple County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 13, 1967
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
22 names on the Wall carry the date December 13, 1967; he was the only one lost in Tây Ninh Province that day. In December 1967, 937 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 106 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 31E, Line 88
- DOUGLAS RAY JOHNSONPrivate First Class · December 13, 1967
- VERNE LYLE JOHNSON JRLance Corporal · December 13, 1967
- LUIS MANUEL MARQUEZ-LOPEZSergeant First Class · December 13, 1967
- MICHAEL RAYE MCCORDSpecialist Four · December 13, 1967
Same unit, same day
- BRUCE HOWARD BUMGARNERPrivate First Class · Panel 31E, Line 85
- KENNETH R STUBBLEFIELDPlatoon Sergeant · Panel 31E, Line 89
From Green Springs
- LARRY GENE DROWNPrivate First Class · September 25, 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.