The Wall › Panel 41E › Georgia › Jonathan Royal Gaddis
JONATHAN ROYAL GADDIS
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
August 29, 1938 – February 24, 1968
Service recordJonathan Royal Gaddis, of Quitman, Georgia, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on February 24, 1968, in Binh Thuy Province, South Vietnam, at age 29. His name is inscribed on Panel 41E, Line 8 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 41E · Line 8
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.
Remember
Did you know him? Family members and friends are invited to share a photograph or a memory. Nothing is posted until it has been reviewed.
Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Sergeant First Class (SFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Armor Reconnaissance Specialist (11D)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 11 ARMORED CAV
- Born
- August 29, 1938
- Home of record
- Quitman, Georgia (Brooks County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 24, 1968
- Age
- 29
- Province
- Binh Thuy
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
45 names on the Wall carry the date February 24, 1968; he was the only one lost in Binh Thuy Province that day. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “11 ARMORED CAV”, his unit in the record, lost 13 of its members that month.
He died in Binh Thuy 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 41E, Line 8
- FERDINANDO DISTEFANOSecond Lieutenant · February 24, 1968
- PATRICK H DOWNEYSpecialist Four · February 24, 1968
- WALTER DANIEL FAITHPrivate First Class · February 24, 1968
- BROADUS DALE HILYERPrivate First Class · February 24, 1968
From Quitman
- CLINTON EUGENE HARRIS JRSpecialist Four · November 8, 1967
- WILLIE JAMES FRAZIERPrivate First Class · May 5, 1969
- ELBERT JAMES BAKER JRCorporal · July 11, 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.