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Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969.
Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969. Photo: U.S. Marine Corps, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Gregory Valentine Maynard.

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GREGORY VALENTINE MAYNARD

Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps

January 20, 1947 – May 19, 1968

Service record

Gregory Valentine Maynard, of New York, New York, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on May 19, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 63E, Line 13 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 63E · Line 13

Position of Panel 63E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Marine Corps
Rank
Corporal (CPL)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Administrative Man (0141)
Born
January 20, 1947
Home of record
New York, New York (Kings County)

Casualty

Date of death
May 19, 1968
Age
21
Province
Quang Tri
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Artillery/Mortar/Rocket

Context · from the records

What was happening

89 names on the Wall carry the date May 19, 1968; 27 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 63E, Line 13

From New York

All 1370 names from New York →

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.