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PERCY LEE GULLEY JR
Private First Class · U.S. Army
July 31, 1948 – April 2, 1969
Service recordPercy Lee Gulley JR, of Plateau, Alabama, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on April 2, 1969, in Binh Thuan Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 28W, Line 107 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 28W · Line 107
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Field Artillery Basic (13A)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 FIELD FORCE
- Born
- July 31, 1948
- Home of record
- Plateau, Alabama (Mobile County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 2, 1969
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Binh Thuan
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
22 names on the Wall carry the date April 2, 1969; two of them were lost in Binh Thuan Province. In April 1969, 1,023 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “1 FIELD FORCE”, his unit in the record, lost 7 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 28W, Line 107
- HURLEY MILLARD BOYDPrivate First Class · April 2, 1969
- WILLIAM HENRY BROWN JRSergeant · April 2, 1969
- LOWELL LAVAIN CRAWFORDPetty Officer Third Class · April 2, 1969
- THOMAS ROY GORRILLFirst Lieutenant · April 2, 1969
Same unit, same day
- STEPHEN ANDREW SHERLOCKPrivate First Class · Panel 27W, Line 2
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.