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GERALD BRUCE ROSE
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
November 15, 1942 – February 22, 1965
Service recordGerald Bruce Rose, of Huntington, West Virginia, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on February 22, 1965, in South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 1E, Line 94 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 1E · Line 94
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Five (SP5)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- November 15, 1942
- Home of record
- Huntington, West Virginia (Multiple County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 22, 1965
- Age
- 22
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
Two names on the Wall carry the date February 22, 1965. In February 1965, 54 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 3 of its members that month.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 1E, Line 94
- JAMES ARTHUR STARLEYSergeant First Class · February 22, 1965
- DWIGHT GLENN FRAKESChief Petty Officer · February 24, 1965
- KURT WILLIAM GAREISSCaptain · February 24, 1965
- JAMES IRVING PRATTPetty Officer First Class · February 25, 1965
- ELVIS GORDON BARKERCaptain · March 1, 1965
From Huntington
- GLENN MCARTHUR LANEPetty Officer Second Class · October 26, 1965
- JACKIE L WAYMIRESergeant · January 9, 1967
- EMORY LE ROY TAYLORPrivate First Class · April 17, 1967
- RONALD KEITH NEALPetty Officer Third Class · April 21, 1967
- JOHNNY MALCOLM JOHNSONPrivate First Class · May 21, 1967
- JAMES RICHARD EMMERTSergeant · June 22, 1967
- WILLIAM EDWARD CRAFTSergeant First Class · September 25, 1967
- LESTER LEE MEADOWS JRSpecialist Four · September 29, 1967
- HARON LEE BROWN IIFirst Lieutenant · December 14, 1967
- MICHAEL EUGENE STEPHENSPetty Officer Third Class · January 24, 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.