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GERALD AUGUSTINE CULHANE
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
January 16, 1920 – September 12, 1967
Service recordGerald Augustine Culhane, of Rochester, New York, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on September 12, 1967, in South Vietnam, at age 47. His name is inscribed on Panel 26E, Line 59 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 26E · Line 59
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Ah-64 Attack Helicopter Repairer (67R)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
- Born
- January 16, 1920
- Home of record
- Rochester, New York (Monroe County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 12, 1967
- Age
- 47
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Illness
- Circumstance
- Heart Related
Context · from the records
What was happening
30 names on the Wall carry the date September 12, 1967. In September 1967, 929 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 54 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 26E, Line 59
- HOWARD ARTHUR CHAMBERLINLance Corporal · September 12, 1967
- THOMAS LEROY FORBESMaster Sergeant · September 12, 1967
- THOMAS EARL FRANCISCorporal · September 12, 1967
- CALVIN LEE MCDAVISPrivate First Class · September 12, 1967
Same unit, same day
- JERRY LEE ROGERSSpecialist Four · Panel 26E, Line 63
From Rochester
- EUGENE RICHARDSONAirman First Class · October 24, 1964
- JOHN E EHRMENTRAUT JRPrivate First Class · April 24, 1965
- ALBERT S KNIGHT IIILance Corporal · June 22, 1965
- JOHN BERNARD TETTEPrivate First Class · August 18, 1965
- GEORGE STEPHEN BALAZYPrivate First Class · September 12, 1965
- JOSEPH CHRISTIANOColonel · December 24, 1965
- NOEL MICHAEL BARTOLFPrivate First Class · January 2, 1966
- NICHOLES SOCHACKIPrivate First Class · February 25, 1966
- RICHARD FLOYD SMITHPrivate First Class · March 16, 1966
- ROBERT JULIUS VANREYPENPrivate First Class · March 27, 1966
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.