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JOHN THEODORE GALLAGHER
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
June 17, 1943 – January 5, 1968
Service recordJohn Theodore Gallagher, of Hamden, Connecticut, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He was lost on January 5, 1968, in Laos, and was later declared dead. His name is inscribed on Panel 33E, Line 48 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 33E · Line 48
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Sergeant First Class (SFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- June 17, 1943
- Home of record
- Hamden, Connecticut (New Haven County)
Casualty
- Date of loss
- January 5, 1968
- Country
- Laos
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Declared Dead
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)
- First reported
- Missing in action
- Remains
- Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record
Context · from the records
What was happening
52 names on the Wall carry the date January 5, 1968. In January 1968, 1,546 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 24 of its members that month.
He died in Laos while the air war over Laos was under way. From 1964 to 1973, U.S. aircraft bombed the Ho Chi Minh Trail and supported the war in northern Laos; many of the Americans lost over Laos were never recovered.
His remains had not been recovered when the 2008 record was compiled. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency continues to search for Americans still missing from the war; families can find case information through dpaa.mil.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 33E, Line 48
- JAMES CUTHBERT HARTNEYColonel · July 19, 1967
- GEORGE GREART GONSALVESPrivate First Class · January 5, 1968
- CARL EDWARD HIXSONCorporal · January 5, 1968
- DANIEL JOSEPH JOHNSONPrivate First Class · January 5, 1968
From Hamden
- ROBERT EDWARD BUSHLieutenant Colonel · March 24, 1966
- PIERCE IRVING ROBERTSONMajor · October 9, 1966
- ALAN IVAN SMITHSergeant · October 22, 1966
- ALFRED JUDSON FORCE MOODYBrigadier General · March 19, 1967
- OSCAR BIEHL JRCaptain · May 30, 1967
- DONALD PORTER FERGUSONCorporal · January 13, 1968
- EDWARD KENNETH DUELPrivate First Class · October 21, 1968
- ROBERT BERTON READCorporal · May 28, 1969
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.