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MICHAEL ANTHONY GEROME
Sergeant · U.S. Army
January 9, 1947 – May 7, 1968
Service recordMichael Anthony Gerome, of Reseda, California, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on May 7, 1968, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 56E, Line 23 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 56E · Line 23
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
- Sergeant (SGT)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- January 9, 1947
- Home of record
- Reseda, California (Los Angeles County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 7, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Binh Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
73 names on the Wall carry the date May 7, 1968; four of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 70 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 56E, Line 23
- FRED KEITH FISHPrivate First Class · May 7, 1968
- KENNETH WAYNE FLOYDCorporal · May 7, 1968
- GREGORY RANDALL GAINESSergeant · May 7, 1968
- JAMES ROBERT MCDONOUGHSpecialist Five · May 7, 1968
Same unit, same day
- DONALD GILES WAIDEStaff Sergeant · Panel 56E, Line 33
From Reseda
- ARTHUR LOREN HAWKINS JRCorporal · November 10, 1967
- PATRICK LOUIS BRUCKNERLance Corporal · April 30, 1968
- WILLIAM PAUL TOWNSEND JRPrivate First Class · May 1, 1968
- DAVID RICHARD BINNSPrivate First Class · May 15, 1968
- JOE RAY COURTNEY JRCorporal · May 22, 1968
- DAVID COURTNEY DAHLINSergeant · September 12, 1968
- THOMAS LEE CARTERCaptain · November 10, 1968
- STEPHEN SCOTT NIEDERHAUSESpecialist Five · February 26, 1969
- JAMES RICHARD HARRISONCorporal · March 9, 1969
- JOHN ANDREW LESTELLE IIPrivate First Class · March 17, 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.