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GREGORY EUGENE NEWMAN
Sergeant · U.S. Army
February 25, 1947 – March 23, 1969
Service recordGregory Eugene Newman, of Brown Deer, Wisconsin, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on March 23, 1969, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 28W, Line 20 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 28W · Line 20
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
- Sergeant (SGT)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 198 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- February 25, 1947
- Home of record
- Brown Deer, Wisconsin (Milwaukee County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 23, 1969
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Quang Tin
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
33 names on the Wall carry the date March 23, 1969; four of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In March 1969, 1,553 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 198th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 33 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 28W, Line 20
- DAVID DEWAYNE OVERSTREETPetty Officer Third Class · March 23, 1969
- EDWARD WESLEY PAWLOWSKILieutenant (junior grade) · March 23, 1969
- CARL HARMAN PETERS JRSergeant · March 23, 1969
- LOUIS BERNARD WANER IISpecialist Four · March 23, 1969
Same unit, same day
- MICHAEL ARTHUR GEHLSpecialist Four · Panel 28W, Line 18
- LOUIS BERNARD WANER IISpecialist Four · Panel 28W, Line 20
- ANDREW LEE PRESLEY JRSpecialist Four · Panel 28W, Line 21
From Brown Deer
- PAUL WALTER HEINZPrivate First Class · March 1, 1968
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.