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GERALD FRANKLIN APPERSON
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
December 6, 1935 – January 8, 1969
Service recordGerald Franklin Apperson, of Hot Springs, South Dakota, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on January 8, 1969, in South Vietnam, at age 33. His name is inscribed on Panel 35W, Line 53 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 35W · Line 53
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Sergeant First Class (SFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Radio Operator (05B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- December 6, 1935
- Home of record
- Hot Springs, South Dakota (Fall River County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 8, 1969
- Age
- 33
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
25 names on the Wall carry the date January 8, 1969. In January 1969, 985 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 15 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 35W, Line 53
- CHADWICK MCFALL BARBERFirst Lieutenant · January 8, 1969
- STEVEN DOUGLAS BARTMANSpecialist Four · January 8, 1969
- WILLIAM INNES BOUTON JRFirst Lieutenant · January 8, 1969
- ROBERT DON CASESpecialist Four · January 8, 1969
Same unit, same day
- BILL FRED WILLIAMS JRSpecialist Four · Panel 35W, Line 57
From Hot Springs
- ANTON LEONARD MUHMSergeant · June 8, 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.