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LEROY LYNN GERBER
Sergeant · U.S. Army
June 22, 1946 – August 21, 1967
Service recordLeroy Lynn Gerber, of Dalton, Ohio, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on August 21, 1967, in South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 25E, Line 23 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 25E · Line 23
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Sergeant (SGT)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
- Born
- June 22, 1946
- Home of record
- Dalton, Ohio (Wayne County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 21, 1967
- Age
- 21
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
29 names on the Wall carry the date August 21, 1967. In August 1967, 683 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 59 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 25E, Line 23
- PATRICK SHELDON COCHRANCorporal · August 21, 1967
- BAXTER FRENCH ERVINPrivate First Class · August 21, 1967
- DAVID ANTHONY FRANCISPrivate First Class · August 21, 1967
- LUCION GILLISPIE JRLance Corporal · August 21, 1967
Same unit, same day
- RAYMOND EUGENE ALLENSpecialist Four · Panel 25E, Line 21
- CLARENCE LAWRENCE CHASESpecialist Four · Panel 25E, Line 22
- ARCHIE W MORRISSergeant · Panel 25E, Line 25
- ROGER DALE ROOTSpecialist Four · Panel 25E, Line 25
- FREDERICK HOWARD TIMSSergeant · Panel 25E, Line 26
From Dalton
- LAWRENCE EUGENE PORTERLance Corporal · June 6, 1968
- ROY LYNN PORTERPrivate First Class · August 31, 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.