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GREG LOW GESSEL
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
May 23, 1946 – September 14, 1967
Service recordGreg Low Gessel, of Hermiston, Oregon, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on September 14, 1967, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 26E, Line 71 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 26E · Line 71
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Heavy Anti-Armor Weapons Infantryman (11H)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
- Born
- May 23, 1946
- Home of record
- Hermiston, Oregon (Umatilla County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 14, 1967
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Binh Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
21 names on the Wall carry the date September 14, 1967; he was the only one lost in Bình Định Province that day. In September 1967, 929 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 54 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 26E, Line 71
- ROBERT GARCIASpecialist Four · September 14, 1967
- KEITH EDWARD GERHARDTLance Corporal · September 14, 1967
- RONALD BERNARD GOBERLance Corporal · September 14, 1967
- DAVID LEROY HOWARDPrivate First Class · September 14, 1967
Same unit, same day
- CLARK EDWARD CLEVELANDPrivate First Class · Panel 26E, Line 70
From Hermiston
- JAMES LINSDAY BADLEYFirst Lieutenant · March 27, 1968
- RICHARD THOMAS MILLERLance Corporal · May 12, 1969
- JOHN ALAN WAREStaff Sergeant · November 4, 1969
- GORDON KEITH SPEARMAN JRStaff Sergeant · March 10, 1971
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.