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GERALD D BAKER
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
January 28, 1941 – August 4, 1967
Service recordGerald D Baker, of Memphis, Tennessee, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on August 4, 1967, in South Vietnam, at age 26. His name is inscribed on Panel 24E, Line 76 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 24E · Line 76
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. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Aircraft Structural Repairer (68G)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 408 TRANS DET 1 INF DIV
- Born
- January 28, 1941
- Home of record
- Memphis, Tennessee (Shelby County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 4, 1967
- Age
- 26
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
17 names on the Wall carry the date August 4, 1967. In August 1967, 683 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 24E, Line 76
- JOHN YEASTPrivate First Class · August 3, 1967
- PATRICK RALPH DONERPrivate First Class · August 4, 1967
- DAVID ALLEN ECHOLSPrivate First Class · August 4, 1967
- EVERETT STRATTON JRLance Corporal · August 4, 1967
From Memphis
- JESSE ALEXANDER GRAYSergeant First Class · June 12, 1964
- ANDREW DAYTON PARKER JRMajor · June 18, 1965
- JOHN CARLOS HARRISSergeant · July 21, 1965
- WALTER LEWIS SMITHPrivate First Class · August 19, 1965
- CLAUDE TALBERT JRPrivate First Class · October 8, 1965
- WILLIAM CLYDE HARPERSergeant · October 10, 1965
- DANIEL DAVID HARDENSergeant · November 1, 1965
- RANDLE TOM WOODSLance Corporal · November 6, 1965
- KELLY EUGENE WHITAKERPrivate First Class · November 8, 1965
- MELVIN FRANK FORTSpecialist Four · 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.