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GORDON WOOD HOOVER
Gunnery Sergeant · U.S. Marine Corps
February 12, 1936 – January 31, 1968
Service recordGordon Wood Hoover, of Millport, New York, served as a Gunnery Sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on January 31, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 31. His name is inscribed on Panel 36E, Line 16 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 36E · Line 16
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
- Gunnery Sergeant (GYSGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Warehouse Clerk (3051)
- Born
- February 12, 1936
- Home of record
- Millport, New York (Chemung County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 31, 1968
- Age
- 31
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
246 names on the Wall carry the date January 31, 1968; 28 of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In January 1968, 1,546 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in Thừa Thiên Province while the Battle of Huế was under way. At Huế (31 January–2 March 1968), Marines, soldiers of the 1st Cavalry and 101st Airborne divisions and South Vietnamese troops fought house to house for 26 days to retake the old imperial capital, the longest urban battle of the war. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Also on Panel 36E, Line 16
- KENNETH EUGENE HOTCHKISSPrivate First Class · January 31, 1968
- RICHARD DALE HOVLANDSpecialist Four · January 31, 1968
- HENRY GRANT HOWCOTTMajor · January 31, 1968
- ROY HUDSONLance Corporal · January 31, 1968
From Millport
- THOMAS EUGENE BIXBYPrivate First Class · March 27, 1968
- RODGER DENNIS FORCESpecialist Four · March 3, 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.