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A Navy corpsman treats a wounded Marine of H Company, 2nd Battalion, 5th Marines, in Huế, February 1968.
A Navy corpsman treats a wounded Marine of H Company, 2nd Battalion, 5th Marines, in Huế, February 1968. Photo: Sgt. William F. Dickman, USMC, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Gerald Dwain Angelley.

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GERALD DWAIN ANGELLEY

Chief Petty Officer · U.S. Navy

December 17, 1930 – April 19, 1969

Service record

Gerald Dwain Angelley, of Los Angeles, California, served as a Chief Petty Officer in the U.S. Navy. He died on April 19, 1969, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 38. His name is inscribed on Panel 26W, Line 6 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 26W · Line 6

Position of Panel 26W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Chief Petty Officer (CPO)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Hospital Corpsman (HM)
Unit (as recorded)
USNAVFORV
Born
December 17, 1930
Home of record
Los Angeles, California (Los Angeles County)

Casualty

Date of death
April 19, 1969
Age
38
Province
Quang Tri
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Helicopter Crash — crew

Context · from the records

What was happening

36 names on the Wall carry the date April 19, 1969; six of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In April 1969, 1,023 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The unit recorded as “USNAVFORV”, his unit in the record, lost 6 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 26W, Line 6

From Los Angeles

All 540 names from Los Angeles →

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.