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JESUS EPHRAIM GOMEZ JR
Corporal · U.S. Army
July 18, 1949 – November 29, 1968
Service recordJesus Ephraim Gomez JR, of New York, New York, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Army. He died on November 29, 1968, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 37W, Line 5 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 37W · Line 5
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Corporal (CPL)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- July 18, 1949
- Home of record
- New York, New York (Kings County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 29, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Tin
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
28 names on the Wall carry the date November 29, 1968; three of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In November 1968, 918 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 40 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 37W, Line 5
- VESTIE TIMOTHY DRIGGERSSpecialist Four · November 29, 1968
- GEORGE ARTHUR FOSTER IIISpecialist Four · November 29, 1968
- JOHN RUFUS GASTON JRPrivate First Class · November 29, 1968
- JOHNIE REESE GODWIN JRFirst Lieutenant · November 29, 1968
Same unit, same day
- HERIBERTO BLANCOPrivate First Class · Panel 37W, Line 4
- VESTIE TIMOTHY DRIGGERSSpecialist Four · Panel 37W, Line 5
- TERRYL GLENN PARTSAFASSpecialist Four · Panel 37W, Line 7
From New York
- WALTER R MCCARTHY JRCaptain · June 16, 1962
- JOHN HOWARD MCCLEANCaptain · August 16, 1963
- DONALD ALLAN MOLLICONEFirst Lieutenant · December 20, 1963
- VINCENT JOSEPH HICKMANCaptain · January 14, 1964
- MARTIN STOCKFEDERPrivate First Class · July 15, 1964
- ROBERT GEORGE ARMSTRONGFirst Lieutenant · October 24, 1964
- DOMINICK SANSONESergeant First Class · December 10, 1964
- DONALD GILBERT COOKColonel · December 31, 1964
- TERENCE MEREDITH MURPHYLieutenant (junior grade) · April 9, 1965
- ROBERT CARL WISTRANDColonel · May 9, 1965
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.