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GORDON LEONARD CABLES
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
July 29, 1941 – March 20, 1967
Service recordGordon Leonard Cables, of Litchfield, Connecticut, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on March 20, 1967, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 16E, Line 119 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 16E · Line 119
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
- Specialist Five (SP5)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Armor Reconnaissance Specialist (11D)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 3/5 CAV 9 INF DIV
- Born
- July 29, 1941
- Home of record
- Litchfield, Connecticut (Litchfield County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 20, 1967
- Age
- 25
- Province
- Binh Duong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
48 names on the Wall carry the date March 20, 1967; five of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In March 1967, 1,091 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “3/5 CAV 9 INF DIV”, his unit in the record, lost 6 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 16E, Line 119
- EDWARD L BUSHWarrant Officer 1 · March 20, 1967
- RICHARD JAMES CARSONLance Corporal · March 20, 1967
- CARL ROGER CROSIERCorporal · March 20, 1967
- RICHARD PEREZ CRUZSpecialist Four · March 20, 1967
Same unit, same day
- THOMAS EDWARD HAGGARDPrivate First Class · Panel 16E, Line 121
- STEVE LOPEZSpecialist Four · Panel 16E, Line 124
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.