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GERRY GLEN SIMPSON
Corporal · U.S. Army
September 17, 1947 – November 23, 1967
Service recordGerry Glen Simpson, of Buffalo, West Virginia, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Army. He died on November 23, 1967, in Dinh Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 30E, Line 73 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 30E · Line 73
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Corporal (CPL)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- September 17, 1947
- Home of record
- Buffalo, West Virginia (Putnam County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 23, 1967
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Dinh Tuong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
35 names on the Wall carry the date November 23, 1967; four of them were lost in Định Tường Province. In November 1967, 1,133 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 50 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 30E, Line 73
- JOHN CHARLES HUGHESSpecialist Four · November 23, 1967
- GARY DOYLE ROERINKPrivate First Class · November 23, 1967
- DOUGLAS EUGENE ROGERSPrivate First Class · November 23, 1967
- LLOYD CHISOLM RUNNELS JRSecond Lieutenant · November 23, 1967
Same unit, same day
- DAVID WAYNE VESTCorporal · Panel 30E, Line 68
- WILLIAM WINSTON COLESergeant First Class · Panel 30E, Line 69
- JERRY WAYNE STANDRIDGECorporal · Panel 30E, Line 74
- WILLARD BOSTON WALLACECorporal · Panel 30E, Line 74
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.