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JACK ELROY GARDNER
Private First Class · U.S. Army
November 10, 1944 – May 20, 1966
Service recordJack Elroy Gardner, of Vacaville, California, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on May 20, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 7E, Line 89 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 7E · Line 89
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
- Regular
- Occupation
- Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- November 10, 1944
- Home of record
- Vacaville, California (Solano County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 20, 1966
- Age
- 21
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
18 names on the Wall carry the date May 20, 1966. In May 1966, 595 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 23 of its members that month.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 7E, Line 89
- WILFORD PAUL COLLERSergeant · May 20, 1966
- DAVID LYNN CROWSpecialist Four · May 20, 1966
- MICHAEL OWEN GATWOODPrivate First Class · May 20, 1966
- DANIEL KNARIANLance Corporal · May 20, 1966
- JAMES FRANCIS BROOKS JRPrivate First Class · May 21, 1966
Same unit, same day
- GILLIAM MOOREPrivate First Class · Panel 7E, Line 90
- CARTER REDMONDPrivate · Panel 7E, Line 90
From Vacaville
- DENNIS STEVEN MICHAELPrivate First Class · February 20, 1968
- ROBERT SCOTT SHELTONPrivate First Class · March 28, 1968
- EDMOND JOHN LANDERSCaptain · May 15, 1968
- JIMMIE VAN BOCKPrivate First Class · May 21, 1969
- THURLE EUGENE CASE JRPetty Officer Third Class · March 16, 1970
- WILLIAM MONROE PARKERTechnical Sergeant · April 21, 1975
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.