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GENE RAYMOND GOLLAHON
Lieutenant · U.S. Navy
November 7, 1938 – August 13, 1965
Service recordGene Raymond Gollahon, of Cincinnati, Ohio, served as a Lieutenant in the U.S. Navy. He died on August 13, 1965, in North Vietnam, at age 26. His name is inscribed on Panel 2E, Line 51 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 2E · Line 51
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. Navy
- Rank
- Lieutenant (LT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Url Pilot (1310)
- Unit (as recorded)
- VF 111 USS MIDWAY CVA 41
- Born
- November 7, 1938
- Home of record
- Cincinnati, Ohio (Hamilton County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 13, 1965
- Age
- 26
- Country
- North Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
Six names on the Wall carry the date August 13, 1965. In August 1965, 179 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in North Vietnam while Operation Rolling Thunder was under way. Operation Rolling Thunder (March 1965–November 1968) was the sustained U.S. bombing campaign against North Vietnam, flown by Air Force fighter-bombers from Thailand and Navy aircraft from carriers in the Gulf of Tonkin against some of the densest air defenses in the world.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 2E, Line 51
- DONALD HUBERT BROWN JRLieutenant (junior grade) · August 12, 1965
- ROBERT HOWARD FUELLHARTCaptain · August 12, 1965
- RONALD CALVIN KRAUSFirst Lieutenant · August 12, 1965
- GEORGE ABRAHAM DELUCAMaster Sergeant · August 13, 1965
From Cincinnati
- ROBERT DAVID BENNETTCaptain · November 5, 1962
- TOM WARDSergeant First Class · August 20, 1964
- KENNETH EDWARD HUMELieutenant Commander · March 29, 1965
- JAMES MELVEN PENNYPrivate First Class · July 15, 1965
- LEONARD FREDERICK VOGT JRCommander · September 18, 1965
- CLARENCE HENRY GRAYStaff Sergeant · October 5, 1965
- EDWARD KEMPPrivate First Class · October 23, 1965
- CHARLES R DAVIS JRSpecialist Five · November 1, 1965
- TOMMY ALLEN DOAKPrivate First Class · November 17, 1965
- MATTHEWS SHELTONPrivate First Class · November 17, 1965
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.