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JOSE GENE ABARA
Sergeant · U.S. Air Force
May 15, 1945 – February 7, 1968
Service recordJose Gene Abara, of Long Branch, New Jersey, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Air Force. He died on February 7, 1968, in Kontum Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 37E, Line 76 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 37E · Line 76
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. Air Force
- Rank
- Sergeant (SGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Born
- May 15, 1945
- Home of record
- Long Branch, New Jersey (Monmouth County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 7, 1968
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Kontum
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
136 names on the Wall carry the date February 7, 1968; he was the only one lost in Kon Tum Province that day. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in Kon Tum 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 37E, Line 76
- HENRY ARTHUR WRIGHTSecond Lieutenant · February 6, 1968
- RODERICK MICHAEL WRIGHTCorporal · February 6, 1968
- WILLIAM LLOYD YOUNG JRPrivate First Class · February 6, 1968
- EARL FREDERICK BURKESergeant First Class · February 7, 1968
From Long Branch
- DEL RAY JACOBSPrivate First Class · May 9, 1967
- JERRY MORGAN JRCorporal · April 21, 1969
- MALCOLM JONATHAN GRIMPrivate · January 23, 1970
- JOHN ROBERT GRISARDChief Warrant Officer 2 · November 19, 1970
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.