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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault.
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Gregory Joseph Gee.

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GREGORY JOSEPH GEE

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

August 25, 1949 – August 17, 1969

Service record

Gregory Joseph Gee, of Vallejo, California, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on August 17, 1969, in Dinh Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 19W, Line 54 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 19W · Line 54

Position of Panel 19W 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
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
9 INF DIV
Born
August 25, 1949
Home of record
Vallejo, California (Solano County)

Casualty

Date of death
August 17, 1969
Age
19
Province
Dinh Tuong
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Explosive Device

Context · from the records

What was happening

26 names on the Wall carry the date August 17, 1969; he was the only one lost in Định Tường Province that day. In August 1969, 962 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 18 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 19W, Line 54

From Vallejo

All 28 names from Vallejo →

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.