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JAMES LEE GASSELING
Sergeant · U.S. Army
March 10, 1948 – October 8, 1969
Service recordJames Lee Gasseling, of Yakima, Washington, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on October 8, 1969, in Darlac Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 17W, Line 49 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 17W · Line 49
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
- Sergeant (SGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- March 10, 1948
- Home of record
- Yakima, Washington (Yakima County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 8, 1969
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Darlac
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
24 names on the Wall carry the date October 8, 1969; he was the only one lost in Darlac Province that day. In October 1969, 600 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 15 of its members that month.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 17W, Line 49
- ALBERT HAROLD ALTIZERCorporal · October 8, 1969
- JOSEPH HENNING BENSONPrivate First Class · October 8, 1969
- WILLIAM FORREST DAVISSpecialist Five · October 8, 1969
- CLAUDE ERNEST ELLARD JRPrivate First Class · October 8, 1969
From Yakima
- LARRY BYRON MCCLANAHANPrivate First Class · February 10, 1965
- PATRICK SPIKER JRStaff Sergeant · July 15, 1965
- DAVID ROSS FAULCONERPrivate First Class · September 12, 1966
- WALTER DARYLE LEACHSpecialist Four · December 1, 1966
- RODNEY RICHARD WEEDSpecialist Four · March 19, 1967
- LLOYD PALMER STEARNSSergeant · April 8, 1967
- JAMES LOUIS ZYPHSpecialist Four · February 24, 1968
- RICHARD SAMUEL GINDERPrivate First Class · March 3, 1968
- VERNON LEE LEUNINGWarrant Officer 1 · March 4, 1968
- GARY LEWIS COLOMBOCorporal · March 6, 1968
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.