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GERALD RAYDINE ROSS
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
May 7, 1944 – December 8, 1969
Service recordGerald Raydine Ross, of Bloomington, Indiana, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on December 8, 1969, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 15W, Line 40 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 15W · Line 40
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 Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Heavy Vehicle Driver (64B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 LOGISTIC CMD
- Born
- May 7, 1944
- Home of record
- Bloomington, Indiana (Monroe County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 8, 1969
- Age
- 25
- Province
- Binh Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Vehicle Crash (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
16 names on the Wall carry the date December 8, 1969; three of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In December 1969, 509 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “1 LOGISTIC CMD”, his unit in the record, lost 10 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 15W, Line 40
- KENNETH BRUCE SESSUMSSergeant · December 8, 1969
- TERRIL WAYDE SNELSONPrivate First Class · December 8, 1969
- FLOYD G TALLEYSpecialist Five · December 8, 1969
- ROYCE WILLIAM TRUSSELL JRSergeant · December 8, 1969
Same unit, same day
- JIMMY LEE FOMBYPrivate First Class · Panel 15W, Line 38
- ROBERT LEE HATCHERSpecialist Four · Panel 15W, Line 38
- GARY HENTON MITCHELLPrivate · Panel 15W, Line 39
From Bloomington
- KENNETH LEE WALTERSSpecialist Four · May 2, 1967
- JAMES ARNOLD WORKMANSpecialist Four · May 18, 1967
- ALAN THOMAS READPrivate First Class · May 19, 1967
- EUGENE ALLEN PARISHPrivate First Class · October 15, 1967
- CHARLES PATRICK LIROTPrivate First Class · November 26, 1967
- WALTER MICHAEL SCOTTPrivate · February 11, 1968
- BOBBY WILSONSpecialist Four · February 25, 1968
- JERRY LABORN BOOKERSpecialist Four · April 22, 1968
- HARRY TILLMAN NIGGLELieutenant Colonel · February 5, 1969
- BRUCE WILLIAM SHAFFERWarrant Officer 1 · March 28, 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.