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JOHNNY EDWARD GANTT
Sergeant · U.S. Army
December 26, 1946 – March 26, 1968
Service recordJohnny Edward Gantt, of Rome, Georgia, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on March 26, 1968, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 46E, Line 32 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 46E · Line 32
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Sergeant (SGT)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Field Artillery Basic (13A)
- Unit (as recorded)
- MACV ADVISORS
- Born
- December 26, 1946
- Home of record
- Rome, Georgia (Floyd County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 26, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
87 names on the Wall carry the date March 26, 1968; two of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 21 of its members that month.
He died in Tây Ninh Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Also on Panel 46E, Line 32
- WILLIAM WARREN DINIROSpecialist Four · March 26, 1968
- MICHAEL ANDREW FAYSpecialist Five · March 26, 1968
- WAYNE JAMES FIELDINGHospitalman · March 26, 1968
- DONALD CHARLES FOUSTSpecialist Five · March 26, 1968
- EARL WAYNE FRYEPrivate First Class · March 26, 1968
Same unit, same day
- ROBERT DALE POPEFirst Lieutenant · Panel 46E, Line 40
From Rome
- WILLIAM WELTON ENGLISH JRSpecialist Four · October 17, 1966
- WILLIAM LEE COVINGTONLieutenant · January 7, 1969
- LEROY BOYD WEBBSecond Lieutenant · April 10, 1967
- WILLIAM RAY FOWLERHospitalman · May 10, 1967
- THOMAS STEVEN JONESSpecialist Four · October 24, 1967
- DONALD WAYNE DIXONPrivate First Class · February 16, 1968
- JOHNNY WAYNE SITTENLance Corporal · May 18, 1968
- JOHN DAVID GOLLAHONLieutenant (junior grade) · June 30, 1968
- RICHARD LEE JUSTICELance Corporal · July 24, 1968
- WILLIAM EDWARD FINLEYSpecialist Four · February 2, 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.