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GERALD SELAH COLVIN
Private First Class · U.S. Army
November 20, 1948 – July 8, 1969
Service recordGerald Selah Colvin, of Bennington, Vermont, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on July 8, 1969, in Binh Thuan Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 21W, Line 81 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 21W · Line 81
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Field Artillery Basic (13A)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 FIELD FORCE
- Born
- November 20, 1948
- Home of record
- Bennington, Vermont (Bennington County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- July 8, 1969
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Binh Thuan
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
37 names on the Wall carry the date July 8, 1969; three of them were lost in Binh Thuan Province. In July 1969, 834 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “1 FIELD FORCE”, his unit in the record, lost 6 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 21W, Line 81
- VIRGIL ALLEN CALKINS JRSpecialist Four · July 8, 1969
- RUSSELL BERTON CARSONSergeant · July 8, 1969
- CHARLES PERRY CHANDLERSergeant · July 8, 1969
- DONALD LINCOLN COVINGTONPrivate First Class · July 8, 1969
Same unit, same day
- STANLEY STEWART FENNERPrivate First Class · Panel 21W, Line 82
- ROY LEE SINGLETARYPrivate First Class · Panel 21W, Line 86
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.