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GERALD A BINGER
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
June 7, 1927 – January 22, 1965
Service recordGerald A Binger, of Neptune City, New Jersey, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on January 22, 1965, in South Vietnam, at age 37. His name is inscribed on Panel 1E, Line 82 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 1E · Line 82
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Translator-Interpreter (04B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- MACV ADVISORS
- Born
- June 7, 1927
- Home of record
- Neptune City, New Jersey (Monmouth County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 22, 1965
- Age
- 37
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
One name on the Wall carry the date January 22, 1965. In January 1965, 18 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 7 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 1E, Line 82
- LYAL HANCIL ERWINCaptain · January 15, 1965
- ARTHUR EUGENE NORMANAirman Second Class · January 16, 1965
- THURSTON A GRIFFITH JRFirst Lieutenant · January 17, 1965
- RICHARD SHERWIN JOHNSONCaptain · January 17, 1965
From Neptune City
- ALBERT HAROLD RAITTGunnery Sergeant · August 18, 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.