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GREGORY KEITH KRUEGER
Sergeant · U.S. Army
March 1, 1949 – July 17, 1970
Service recordGregory Keith Krueger, of Garrison, North Dakota, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on July 17, 1970, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 8W, Line 24 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 8W · Line 24
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
- Infantry Operations And Intelligence Specialist (11F)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- March 1, 1949
- Home of record
- Garrison, North Dakota (Mclean County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- July 17, 1970
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Binh Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
14 names on the Wall carry the date July 17, 1970; two of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In July 1970, 495 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 21 of its members that month.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 8W, Line 24
- JERRY MICHAEL WEAVERStaff Sergeant · July 16, 1970
- PETER PAUL AULETTIPrivate First Class · July 17, 1970
- ROBERT GARY CRICHTONSergeant · July 17, 1970
- GREGORY DEAN UNZICKERStaff Sergeant · July 17, 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.