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Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969.
Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969. Photo: U.S. Marine Corps, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Gerald Wayne Inglett.

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GERALD WAYNE INGLETT

Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps

February 7, 1945 – June 4, 1967

Service record

Gerald Wayne Inglett, of Augusta, Georgia, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on June 4, 1967, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 21E, Line 55 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 21E · Line 55

Position of Panel 21E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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. Marine Corps
Rank
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Combat Engineer (1371)
Born
February 7, 1945
Home of record
Augusta, Georgia (Richmond County)

Casualty

Date of death
June 4, 1967
Age
22
Province
Quang Tin
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

11 names on the Wall carry the date June 4, 1967; two of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In June 1967, 948 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 21E, Line 55

From Augusta

All 49 names from Augusta →

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.