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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Gregory Allen Tuholski.

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GREGORY ALLEN TUHOLSKI

Private First Class · U.S. Army

July 24, 1946 – December 4, 1967

Service record

Gregory Allen Tuholski, of Rolling Prairie, Indiana, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on December 4, 1967, in Phuoc Long Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 31E, Line 39 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 31E · Line 39

Position of Panel 31E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
1 INF DIV
Born
July 24, 1946
Home of record
Rolling Prairie, Indiana (La Porte County)

Casualty

Date of death
December 4, 1967
Age
21
Province
Phuoc Long
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Artillery/Mortar/Rocket

Context · from the records

What was happening

41 names on the Wall carry the date December 4, 1967; he was the only one lost in Phuoc Long Province that day. In December 1967, 937 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 47 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 31E, Line 39

From Rolling Prairie

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.