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LENNIS CLYDE GENTRY
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
May 27, 1949 – January 22, 1970
Service recordLennis Clyde Gentry, of Powell, Tennessee, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on January 22, 1970, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 14W, Line 57 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 14W · Line 57
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. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 INF DIV
- Born
- May 27, 1949
- Home of record
- Powell, Tennessee (Knox County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 22, 1970
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
Nine names on the Wall carry the date January 22, 1970; he was the only one lost in Tây Ninh Province that day. In January 1970, 529 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 41 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 14W, Line 57
- PEDRO CORDOVA GARCIAPrivate First Class · January 22, 1970
- JAMES CALVIN GRAFTONSpecialist Four · January 22, 1970
- JACK DELE HANSON JRSpecialist Four · January 22, 1970
- WALTER WILLIAM NUNLEY JRSergeant · January 22, 1970
Same unit, same day
- ROBERT FRANKLIN BULLA JRStaff Sergeant · Panel 14W, Line 56
- WALTER WILLIAM NUNLEY JRSergeant · Panel 14W, Line 57
- LOWRENZO NEELEYCorporal · Panel 14W, Line 58
From Powell
- GARY ALVEN GLANDONFirst Lieutenant · May 26, 1966
- CHARLES OSCAR REEDPrivate First Class · May 18, 1967
- WILLIAM ELMER HAGGARDCorporal · January 21, 1970
- ALBERT RAY HANKINSPrivate First Class · May 8, 1971
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.