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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 Gust Callivas.

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GUST CALLIVAS

Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army

February 5, 1925 – November 22, 1965

Service record

Gust Callivas, of Virginia, Minnesota, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on November 22, 1965, in South Vietnam, at age 40. His name is inscribed on Panel 3E, Line 106 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 3E · Line 106

Position of Panel 3E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Sergeant First Class (SFC)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Flight Operations Coordinator (71P)
Born
February 5, 1925
Home of record
Virginia, Minnesota (St Louis County)

Casualty

Date of death
November 22, 1965
Age
40
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Died of Wounds
Circumstance
Grenade

Context · from the records

What was happening

18 names on the Wall carry the date November 22, 1965. In November 1965, 545 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 3E, Line 106

From Virginia

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.