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Marines use an M48 tank as cover in the street fighting in Huế, 4 February 1968.
Marines use an M48 tank as cover in the street fighting in Huế, 4 February 1968. Photo: SSgt Jack L. Harlan, USMC, CC BY 2.0. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Hubert Haskel Gordon JR.

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HUBERT HASKEL GORDON JR

Private First Class · U.S. Army

October 31, 1947 – March 10, 1968

Service record

Hubert Haskel Gordon JR, of Little Rock, Arkansas, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on March 10, 1968, in Hua Nghia Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 44E, Line 7 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 44E · Line 7

Position of Panel 44E 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
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
25 INF DIV
Born
October 31, 1947
Home of record
Little Rock, Arkansas (Pulaski County)

Casualty

Date of death
March 10, 1968
Age
20
Province
Hua Nghia
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Grenade

Context · from the records

What was happening

46 names on the Wall carry the date March 10, 1968; three of them were lost in Hua Nghia Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 188 of its members that month.

He died in Hua Nghia 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 44E, Line 7

Same unit, same day

From Little Rock

All 57 names from Little Rock →

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.