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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 Herman Leroy Gurr.

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HERMAN LEROY GURR

Specialist Six · U.S. Army

January 9, 1944 – January 15, 1967

Service record

Herman Leroy Gurr, of Green Cove Springs, Florida, served as a Specialist Six in the U.S. Army. He died on January 15, 1967, in South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 14E, Line 34 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 14E · Line 34

Position of Panel 14E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Specialist Six (SP6)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Medium Helicopter Repairer (67U)
Born
January 9, 1944
Home of record
Green Cove Springs, Florida (Clay County)

Casualty

Date of death
January 15, 1967
Age
23
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Helicopter Crash — crew

Context · from the records

What was happening

41 names on the Wall carry the date January 15, 1967. In January 1967, 638 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 14E, Line 34

From Green Cove Springs

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.