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GERALD FRANCIS NOVAK
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
December 28, 1946 – March 2, 1967
Service recordGerald Francis Novak, of Villa Park, Illinois, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on March 2, 1967, in Kien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 16E, Line 3 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 16E · Line 3
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
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- December 28, 1946
- Home of record
- Villa Park, Illinois (Du Page County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 2, 1967
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Kien Hoa
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
27 names on the Wall carry the date March 2, 1967; he was the only one lost in Kien Hoa Province that day. In March 1967, 1,091 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 82 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 16E, Line 3
- JACKIE LOUIS HARRISPrivate First Class · March 2, 1967
- ROBERT ELMER MARTINPrivate First Class · March 2, 1967
- WALTER PETER MILLER JRSpecialist Four · March 2, 1967
- LAWRENCE THOMAS NERECKCorporal · March 2, 1967
Same unit, same day
- HAROLD KENNETH SOUTHWICKCorporal · Panel 16E, Line 4
- LLOYD ISAAC STEPHENSCorporal · Panel 16E, Line 5
From Villa Park
- JOHN MICHAEL DUNBARSpecialist Four · November 20, 1967
- THEODORE JAMES STURTEVANTSpecialist Four · February 10, 1968
- PAUL ANDREW STEINPrivate First Class · November 22, 1968
- SAMUEL NICHOLAS HARTPrivate First Class · March 3, 1969
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.