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GUY CLIFTON GETTINGS
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
July 8, 1948 – April 26, 1967
Service recordGuy Clifton Gettings, of Jeffersonville, Indiana, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on April 26, 1967, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 18E, Line 93 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 18E · Line 93
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- July 8, 1948
- Home of record
- Jeffersonville, Indiana (Clark County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 26, 1967
- Age
- 18
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
49 names on the Wall carry the date April 26, 1967; 23 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In April 1967, 887 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 18E, Line 93
- JERRY BERNARD FORMEYSpecialist Four · April 26, 1967
- PATRICK PHILLIP FRANCISCOLance Corporal · April 26, 1967
- LARRY FREDERICK GEIGERPrivate First Class · April 26, 1967
- LINDY ROLAND HALLCorporal · April 26, 1967
From Jeffersonville
- LEONARD ISLER CRAVENStaff Sergeant · February 11, 1966
- DAVID MARVIN JOLLEY JRSpecialist Four · May 22, 1966
- RICHARD LOUIS BARTLEYCorporal · January 31, 1968
- WILLIAM EUGENE MORMAN JRSergeant · November 11, 1968
- MALCOLM EUGENE LOMAXPrivate · November 27, 1968
- CARL RODMAN HINKLESpecialist Four · December 29, 1968
- RICHARD TYRONE LEAVELLPrivate First Class · April 5, 1969
- JAMES HOWELL SUMNERFirst Sergeant · May 2, 1969
- ROBERT DEAN LEWISSpecialist Four · May 12, 1969
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.