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GREGORY JAMES EVANS
Private First Class · U.S. Army
March 7, 1947 – February 18, 1968
Service recordGregory James Evans, of Union Lake, Michigan, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on February 18, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 40E, Line 3 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 40E · Line 3
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
- Medical Specialist (91B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- March 7, 1947
- Home of record
- Union Lake, Michigan (Oakland County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 18, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
85 names on the Wall carry the date February 18, 1968; 12 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 144 of its members that month.
He died in Quảng Trị Province while the siege of Khe Sanh was under way. From 21 January 1968, North Vietnamese divisions besieged the Marine combat base at Khe Sanh and its hill outposts near the Laotian border for 77 days, while U.S. aircraft dropped some 100,000 tons of bombs around it. Operation Pegasus reached the base on 8 April. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Read the history
Also on Panel 40E, Line 3
- RHONDAL GENE CLAYPOOLSpecialist Four · February 18, 1968
- DALLAS DEWEY CUMMINGSPetty Officer Second Class · February 18, 1968
- LOUIS WADE CUSSINSLance Corporal · February 18, 1968
- WILLIAM MARINUS DEVOSPrivate First Class · February 18, 1968
Same unit, same day
- RICHARD HERBERT FOXSecond Lieutenant · Panel 40E, Line 5
- CARROLL BRUCE FULLERPrivate First Class · Panel 40E, Line 5
- RICHARD MARK HAMMONDSpecialist Four · Panel 40E, Line 6
- CLARENCE F MAAS IIISergeant · Panel 40E, Line 9
- ROBERT LEE MOSLEYStaff Sergeant · Panel 40E, Line 10
- DAVID M SCHASRESpecialist Four · Panel 40E, Line 12
- DANIEL R SCOTTPrivate First Class · Panel 40E, Line 13
From Union Lake
- JAMES RAY LAUDICINASergeant · September 9, 1967
- ROBERT DANIEL CAINPrivate First Class · October 23, 1967
- DAVID EARL WEDHORNPrivate First Class · February 7, 1968
- THOMAS LEO TAFFEPrivate First Class · March 27, 1968
- CHARLES RAY HENLEYSpecialist Four · July 15, 1968
- GORDON E MYERSCorporal · January 25, 1969
- JOHN WALLACE STEWARTCorporal · May 5, 1969
- JOSEPH CHARLES CHISHOLMSpecialist Four · May 12, 1969
- FREDERIC HUTCHISON DAVISSergeant · June 7, 1969
- TIMOTHY ALLEN WHITEPrivate First Class · July 28, 1970
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.