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An airman lights a candle during POW/MIA recognition week at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, North Carolina.
An airman lights a candle during POW/MIA recognition week at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, North Carolina. Photo: A1C Aaron Jenne, U.S. Air Force, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Henry Joseph Gallant.

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HENRY JOSEPH GALLANT

Master Sergeant · U.S. Army

September 30, 1929 – July 13, 1965

Service record

Henry Joseph Gallant, of Tampa, Florida, served as a Master Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He was lost on July 13, 1965, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, and was later declared dead. His name is inscribed on Panel 2E, Line 36 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 2E · Line 36

Position of Panel 2E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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. Army
Rank
Master Sergeant (MSG)
Service
Regular
Unit (as recorded)
SPECIAL FORCES
Born
September 30, 1929
Home of record
Tampa, Florida (Hillsborough County)

Casualty

Date of loss
July 13, 1965
Province
Binh Dinh
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Declared Dead
Circumstance
Unknown
First reported
Missing in action
Remains
Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record

Context · from the records

What was happening

Three names on the Wall carry the date July 13, 1965; two of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In July 1965, 103 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 8 of its members that month.

His remains had not been recovered when the 2008 record was compiled. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency continues to search for Americans still missing from the war; families can find case information through dpaa.mil.

Also on Panel 2E, Line 36

Same unit, same day

From Tampa

All 122 names from Tampa →

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.