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GERALD LEE BOURDEAU
Private First Class · U.S. Army
December 23, 1945 – November 5, 1966
Service recordGerald Lee Bourdeau, of Trumbull, Connecticut, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on November 5, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 12E, Line 26 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 12E · Line 26
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 196 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- December 23, 1945
- Home of record
- Trumbull, Connecticut (Fairfield County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 5, 1966
- Age
- 20
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
30 names on the Wall carry the date November 5, 1966. In November 1966, 641 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 196th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 35 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 12E, Line 26
- ROBERT LEE WRIGHTPrivate First Class · November 4, 1966
- BOBBY YOUNGPrivate · November 4, 1966
- JAMES ROBERT BLEVINSSpecialist Four · November 5, 1966
- ROY ROGER BLEWETTPrivate First Class · November 5, 1966
Same unit, same day
- JAMES ROBERT BLEVINSSpecialist Four · Panel 12E, Line 26
- DAVID LAWRENCE CARLSONPrivate First Class · Panel 12E, Line 27
- WALTER HARVEY MYERS JRSpecialist Four · Panel 12E, Line 29
- ALFRED SEVENSKIPrivate · Panel 12E, Line 29
From Trumbull
- STEPHEN GRADY PECKSpecialist Four · March 6, 1967
- ROBERT JOHN LESKASergeant · May 5, 1968
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.