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GREGORY RANDALL GAINES
Sergeant · U.S. Army
August 31, 1948 – May 7, 1968
Service recordGregory Randall Gaines, of Atlanta, Georgia, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on May 7, 1968, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 56E, Line 23 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 56E · Line 23
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Sergeant (SGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 198 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- August 31, 1948
- Home of record
- Atlanta, Georgia (Fulton County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 7, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Tin
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
73 names on the Wall carry the date May 7, 1968; seven of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 198th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 61 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 56E, Line 23
- FRED KEITH FISHPrivate First Class · May 7, 1968
- KENNETH WAYNE FLOYDCorporal · May 7, 1968
- MICHAEL ANTHONY GEROMESergeant · May 7, 1968
- JAMES ROBERT MCDONOUGHSpecialist Five · May 7, 1968
Same unit, same day
- SAMUEL EMMERSON ROUSHSpecialist Four · Panel 56E, Line 31
From Atlanta
- DAVID NIPPERLance Corporal · November 21, 1964
- JAMES ANTHONY COYAirman First Class · June 11, 1965
- JAMES THARPE BROWN JRPrivate First Class · June 25, 1965
- WESLIE DAVID MEWBORNPetty Officer First Class · September 8, 1964
- DOUGLAS HORACE LEACHSpecialist Four · November 15, 1965
- RONNIE THOMAS MATHISSergeant · November 17, 1965
- GEORGE S MCHELLONSpecialist Four · November 17, 1965
- JAMES CARL WISE JRMajor · December 23, 1965
- CLIFFORD THOMAS JOHNSONPrivate · January 29, 1966
- HARVEY LEWIS BOWEN JRPrivate First Class · February 24, 1966
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.