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GREGORY WILLIAM BUTLER
Private First Class · U.S. Army
March 4, 1947 – March 1, 1967
Service recordGregory William Butler, of East Keansburg, New Jersey, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on March 1, 1967, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 15E, Line 126 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 15E · Line 126
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- March 4, 1947
- Home of record
- East Keansburg, New Jersey (Monmouth County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 1, 1967
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
32 names on the Wall carry the date March 1, 1967; five of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In March 1967, 1,091 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 78 of its members that month.
He died in Tây Ninh Province while Operation Junction City was under way. Operation Junction City (22 February–14 May 1967), in War Zone C along the Cambodian border, was the largest U.S. operation of the war to that time and included the only major American combat parachute assault of the war. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Also on Panel 15E, Line 126
- JERRY DUANE BYERSSpecialist Four · March 1, 1967
- REGINALD F CARTER JRPrivate First Class · March 1, 1967
- EARL LEON CRISSELL JRCorporal · March 1, 1967
- DAVID RICHARD DANIELSPrivate First Class · March 1, 1967
Same unit, same day
- FRANK DAVID BAZELLSergeant · Panel 15E, Line 124
- DAVID THOMAS RAMIREZPrivate First Class · Panel 15E, Line 129
- EDWARD ROWAN REID JRPrivate First Class · Panel 15E, Line 129
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.