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GORDON SAMUEL PERISHO
Lieutenant Commander · U.S. Navy
March 7, 1939 – December 31, 1967
Service recordGordon Samuel Perisho, of Quincy, Illinois, served as a Lieutenant Commander in the U.S. Navy. He was lost on December 31, 1967, in North Vietnam, and was later declared dead. His name is inscribed on Panel 33E, Line 10 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 33E · Line 10
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. Navy
- Rank
- Lieutenant Commander (LCDR)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Url Naval Flight Officer (1320)
- Unit (as recorded)
- VA 75
- Born
- March 7, 1939
- Home of record
- Quincy, Illinois (Adams County)
Casualty
- Date of loss
- December 31, 1967
- Country
- North Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Declared Dead
- Circumstance
- Aircraft Crash — crew
- First reported
- Missing in action
- Remains
- Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record
Context · from the records
What was happening
24 names on the Wall carry the date December 31, 1967. In December 1967, 937 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “VA 75”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
He died in North Vietnam while Operation Rolling Thunder was under way. Operation Rolling Thunder (March 1965–November 1968) was the sustained U.S. bombing campaign against North Vietnam, flown by Air Force fighter-bombers from Thailand and Navy aircraft from carriers in the Gulf of Tonkin against some of the densest air defenses in the world.
His remains had not been recovered when the 2008 record was compiled. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency continues to search for Americans still missing from the war; families can find case information through dpaa.mil.
Read the history
Also on Panel 33E, Line 10
- JOHN DARLINGTON PEACE IIICommander · December 31, 1967
- JOSE SANTANA JRCorporal · December 31, 1967
- JAMES EDWARD THOMPSONPrivate First Class · December 31, 1967
- WESLEY GRIFFIN TUCKERPrivate First Class · December 31, 1967
Same unit, same day
- JOHN DARLINGTON PEACE IIICommander · Panel 33E, Line 10
From Quincy
- WILLARD MARION COLLINSCaptain · March 9, 1966
- JOHN CRAIG ARNOLDCorporal · March 20, 1967
- KENNETH ALFRED SPILKERPrivate First Class · January 30, 1968
- DENNIS KEITH JONESSpecialist Four · May 12, 1968
- MICHAEL EUGENE FORDSpecialist Four · May 25, 1968
- THOMAS MICHAEL WHITFIELDCorporal · November 25, 1968
- RICHARD ELMER ZIMMERMANPrivate First Class · January 12, 1969
- BRADLEY KENT GAUSCorporal · March 16, 1970
- BRUCE HAROLD BARDONPrivate First Class · April 26, 1970
- GEORGE EDWARD FOGLEMANCorporal · May 11, 1970
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.