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GERALD HENRY FORGUE
Sergeant · U.S. Army
March 1, 1948 – October 30, 1968
Service recordGerald Henry Forgue, of Shelton, Connecticut, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on October 30, 1968, in Dinh Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 40W, Line 57 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 40W · Line 57
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Sergeant (SGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- March 1, 1948
- Home of record
- Shelton, Connecticut (Fairfield County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 30, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Dinh Tuong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
24 names on the Wall carry the date October 30, 1968; two of them were lost in Định Tường Province. In October 1968, 821 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 70 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 40W, Line 57
- LARRY BLAINE DURSTCorporal · October 30, 1968
- JOSEPH FERROPrivate First Class · October 30, 1968
- HARLAN LEE GRAHAMSergeant Major · October 30, 1968
- DANNY MICHEAL GRAYPrivate First Class · October 30, 1968
Same unit, same day
- MERRITT LEWIS MURRAYCorporal · Panel 40W, Line 56
From Shelton
- JOHN LEONARD SCHMECKERSpecialist Four · December 22, 1966
- DAVID LAWRENCE SHEEHYPrivate First Class · January 8, 1967
- ROBERT A ELIASergeant · February 13, 1968
- JAMES GORDON SMITHLance Corporal · June 2, 1968
- CARL EDWARD PACKARD JRPrivate First Class · May 12, 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.