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HOWARD WAYNE GULLIKSEN
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
January 12, 1935 – January 30, 1968
Service recordHoward Wayne Gulliksen, of Seward, Alaska, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on January 30, 1968, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 33. His name is inscribed on Panel 35E, Line 72 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 35E · Line 72
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- January 12, 1935
- Home of record
- Seward, Alaska
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 30, 1968
- Age
- 33
- Province
- Binh Duong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
99 names on the Wall carry the date January 30, 1968; seven of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In January 1968, 1,546 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 169 of its members that month.
He died in Bình Dương Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Also on Panel 35E, Line 72
- RICHARD THEODORE HEIMESSergeant · January 30, 1968
- CLEVELAND HOLMESPrivate First Class · January 30, 1968
- WILLIAM JOSEPH HURSTMaster Sergeant · January 30, 1968
- PRINCE ARTHUR JOHNSON JRPrivate First Class · January 30, 1968
Same unit, same day
- TODD R JACKSONCorporal · Panel 35E, Line 73
- RALPH EDGAR MABRY JRSergeant · Panel 35E, Line 75
- MORRISON LOUIS PICKETTSergeant First Class · Panel 35E, Line 79
- TUIOALELE T SUIAUNOASergeant First Class · Panel 35E, Line 83
- ROBERT ALLEN WARNERStaff Sergeant · Panel 35E, Line 83
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.