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HEZEKIAH GOSS JR
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
June 20, 1930 – January 15, 1966
Service recordHezekiah Goss JR, of Saginaw, Michigan, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on January 15, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 35. His name is inscribed on Panel 4E, Line 73 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 4E · Line 73
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Five (SP5)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Medical Specialist (91B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 INF DIV
- Born
- June 20, 1930
- Home of record
- Saginaw, Michigan (Saginaw County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 15, 1966
- Age
- 35
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
Seven names on the Wall carry the date January 15, 1966. In January 1966, 401 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 58 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 4E, Line 73
- ANDRES GARCIASpecialist Four · January 14, 1966
- JOSE RAMO PAGAN-CARTAGENASergeant · January 14, 1966
- JAMES EDWARD HELTONPlatoon Sergeant · January 15, 1966
- JESSE HOWARD HUGHESStaff Sergeant · January 15, 1966
Same unit, same day
- JAMES EDWARD HELTONPlatoon Sergeant · Panel 4E, Line 73
- JESSE HOWARD HUGHESStaff Sergeant · Panel 4E, Line 73
- FRANKIE LEYBA VARGASPrivate First Class · Panel 4E, Line 74
From Saginaw
- BRICKIE BOWMAN JRPrivate · May 23, 1965
- PAUL HAMILTON JRSergeant · October 3, 1965
- ROBERT ALLEN KOWALSKICorporal · January 25, 1966
- TERRY R MCLEANStaff Sergeant · April 2, 1966
- WILLIAM JOSEPH COXPrivate First Class · October 13, 1966
- MILES DENNIS COOPERPrivate First Class · November 19, 1966
- EDWARD EARL SCHELLPrivate First Class · February 6, 1967
- JOHN ROBERT CUSHMANSpecialist Four · March 20, 1967
- STANLEY FOSTER BARRETTPrivate First Class · April 27, 1967
- RICHARD J LOISELLEPrivate First Class · May 10, 1967
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.