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GOMER DAVIS HOSKINS JR
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
March 6, 1936 – March 26, 1967
Service recordGomer Davis Hoskins JR, of Clinton, Tennessee, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on March 26, 1967, in Quang Duc Province, South Vietnam, at age 31. His name is inscribed on Panel 17E, Line 51 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 17E · Line 51
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Sergeant First Class (SFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- March 6, 1936
- Home of record
- Clinton, Tennessee (Anderson County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 26, 1967
- Age
- 31
- Province
- Quang Duc
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
40 names on the Wall carry the date March 26, 1967; two of them were lost in Quang Duc Province. In March 1967, 1,091 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 14 of its members that month.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 17E, Line 51
- DAVID ESTRADALance Corporal · March 26, 1967
- RAYMOND BLAISE GUARINOSpecialist Five · March 26, 1967
- EDWARDO LEOPOLD GUTLOFFPrivate First Class · March 26, 1967
- JAMES EDWARD HENRYSergeant · March 26, 1967
Same unit, same day
- RAYMOND BLAISE GUARINOSpecialist Five · Panel 17E, Line 51
From Clinton
- WILLIAM DON DAUGHERTYPrivate First Class · February 4, 1967
- EDWARD DEAN DISONCorporal · March 3, 1967
- PHILLIP EDWARD MINTONCorporal · February 18, 1969
- JOHN TRAVIS DAVISSergeant · May 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.