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OLLIE JAMES GROSS
Petty Officer First Class · U.S. Navy
June 25, 1944 – April 23, 1969
Service recordOllie James Gross, of Hillsboro, Ohio, served as a Petty Officer First Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on April 23, 1969, in Hua Nghia Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 26W, Line 32 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 26W · Line 32
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. Navy
- Rank
- Petty Officer First Class (PO1)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Aviation Ordnanceman (AO)
- Unit (as recorded)
- USNAVFORV
- Born
- June 25, 1944
- Home of record
- Hillsboro, Ohio (Highland County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 23, 1969
- Age
- 24
- Province
- Hua Nghia
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — crew
Context · from the records
What was happening
42 names on the Wall carry the date April 23, 1969; he was the only one lost in Hua Nghia Province that day. In April 1969, 1,023 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “USNAVFORV”, his unit in the record, lost 6 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 26W, Line 32
- WILLIAM ELLIS BROWNINGPrivate First Class · August 1, 1968
- TROY DAVID FAULKNERSpecialist Five · April 23, 1969
- MELVIN JOHN FREISEPrivate First Class · April 23, 1969
- JAMES PHILLIP HEIMSpecialist Four · April 23, 1969
- JOHN FRANCIS KOEHLERSpecialist Four · April 23, 1969
From Hillsboro
- JOHN RAYMOND CROUSESpecialist Four · May 5, 1968
- MARK LOREN HOOKPrivate First Class · August 28, 1968
- CARY FRANCIS MCAFEECaptain · September 14, 1968
- WILLIAM ERNEST BROWNSpecialist Four · November 15, 1968
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.