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GERALD LEE ELLIOTT
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
March 21, 1946 – May 22, 1968
Service recordGerald Lee Elliott, of Granite City, Illinois, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on May 22, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 65E, Line 8 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 65E · Line 8
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 Five (SP5)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Single-Engine Single-Rotor Helicopter Repairman (67Q)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
- Born
- March 21, 1946
- Home of record
- Granite City, Illinois (Madison County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 22, 1968
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
73 names on the Wall carry the date May 22, 1968; ten of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 160 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 65E, Line 8
- ALONZO LENORD DIXONPrivate First Class · May 22, 1968
- CALVIN CHARLES GLOVERChief Master Sergeant · May 22, 1968
- WILLIAM HENDERSON MASONColonel · May 22, 1968
- PAUL ALLEN PROEHLSergeant · May 22, 1968
Same unit, same day
- DAVID BITANGA CAMACHOStaff Sergeant · Panel 65E, Line 6
- WILLIAM DANNY MORROWPrivate First Class · Panel 65E, Line 13
- HAROLD JAMES NICHOLESPrivate First Class · Panel 65E, Line 14
- JAMES LEON ZIMMERPrivate First Class · Panel 66E, Line 5
From Granite City
- ROBERT EDWARD EMERYPrivate · December 9, 1965
- GENE E CHEPELYPrivate First Class · February 7, 1966
- JOHN BERNARD CAUSEYCaptain · February 25, 1966
- LOREN EUGENE BRADLEYPrivate First Class · April 29, 1966
- RALPH ROGER JUSTICEStaff Sergeant · January 6, 1967
- JAMES RAY DOWDYPrivate First Class · May 3, 1967
- JOE CARL LEUTENEGGERPrivate First Class · July 2, 1967
- RICHARD EUGENE SHILTSpecialist Four · August 17, 1967
- RICHARD JOHN GIEBECorporal · November 9, 1967
- MICHAEL EDWARD ADAMSSergeant · November 19, 1967
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.