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JOHN ALOIS GERDESMEIER
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
December 16, 1948 – August 16, 1968
Service recordJohn Alois Gerdesmeier, of Lakeville, Minnesota, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on August 16, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 48W, Line 25 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 48W · Line 25
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Assaultman (0351)
- Born
- December 16, 1948
- Home of record
- Lakeville, Minnesota (Dakota County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 16, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
55 names on the Wall carry the date August 16, 1968; 31 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In August 1968, 1,313 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 48W, Line 25
- ARTHUR RAYMOND DUPREYCorporal · August 16, 1968
- ROBERT CHARLES GARDNERCorporal · August 16, 1968
- LEWIS CLARENCE GILLSCorporal · August 16, 1968
- JOSE ANTONIO GRANIELA JRPrivate First Class · August 16, 1968
From Lakeville
- WILLIAM ARNOLD GIBBSSergeant · September 11, 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.