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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Gerald Leroy Walters.

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GERALD LEROY WALTERS

Private First Class · U.S. Army

June 28, 1945 – June 30, 1968

Service record

Gerald Leroy Walters, of Culbertson, Nebraska, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on June 30, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 54W, Line 25 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 54W · Line 25

Position of Panel 54W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Field Artillery Basic (13A)
Unit (as recorded)
C BTRY 2 BN 94 INF 108 ARTY GRP
Born
June 28, 1945
Home of record
Culbertson, Nebraska (Hitchcock County)

Casualty

Date of death
June 30, 1968
Age
23
Province
Quang Tri
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Died of Wounds
Circumstance
Artillery/Mortar/Rocket

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What was happening

20 names on the Wall carry the date June 30, 1968; three of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In June 1968, 1,257 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

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Also on Panel 54W, Line 25

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.