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GERALD VERNON EPPLEY
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
May 20, 1945 – August 6, 1966
Service recordGerald Vernon Eppley, of Newark, Ohio, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on August 6, 1966, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 9E, Line 107 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 9E · Line 107
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- May 20, 1945
- Home of record
- Newark, Ohio (Licking County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 6, 1966
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
Six names on the Wall carry the date August 6, 1966; he was the only one lost in Thừa Thiên Province that day. In August 1966, 501 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 9E, Line 107
- TYRONE GREGORY BURSEPrivate First Class · August 5, 1966
- RICHARD JAMES WILLETTSpecialist Four · August 5, 1966
- DOUGLAS ANDREW JOHNSONPrivate First Class · August 6, 1966
- CARL FREDRICK MEIERPrivate First Class · August 6, 1966
From Newark
- PHILIP MARION SENSCorporal · October 30, 1965
- WALTER B OLIVERSergeant · November 4, 1965
- GRANT A RHODESSergeant · January 4, 1966
- WILLARD DAVID KEERANSergeant · May 24, 1966
- JACKIE RAY BROWNPrivate First Class · September 29, 1966
- RICHARD JOHN EDRISCommander · November 1, 1966
- GARY WAYNE RITCHEYPrivate First Class · May 20, 1967
- PAUL RICHARD MYERSSpecialist Four · June 13, 1967
- DANIEL LEE KINNARDSpecialist Four · March 9, 1968
- ROBERT WAYNE ELSWICKSpecialist Four · March 16, 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.