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A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967.
A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967. Photo: SP5 Robert C. Lafoon, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Gregory Gore.

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GREGORY GORE

Private First Class · U.S. Army

August 27, 1949 – December 20, 1967

Service record

Gregory Gore, of Flushing, New York, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on December 20, 1967, in Long An Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 32E, Line 30 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 32E · Line 30

Position of Panel 32E 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
Regular
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
9 INF DIV
Born
August 27, 1949
Home of record
Flushing, New York (Queens County)

Casualty

Date of death
December 20, 1967
Age
18
Province
Long An
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

24 names on the Wall carry the date December 20, 1967; two of them were lost in Long An Province. In December 1967, 937 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 45 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 32E, Line 30

Same unit, same day

From Flushing

All 40 names from Flushing →

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.