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A Navy Swift boat patrols the Long Tàu River to keep the channel to Saigon open, December 1966.
A Navy Swift boat patrols the Long Tàu River to keep the channel to Saigon open, December 1966. Photo: PH1 V.H. McColley, U.S. Navy, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Peter Emmanuel Gutloff.

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PETER EMMANUEL GUTLOFF

Petty Officer Third Class · U.S. Navy

November 18, 1946 – October 18, 1969

Service record

Peter Emmanuel Gutloff, of New York, New York, served as a Petty Officer Third Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on October 18, 1969, in South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 17W, Line 88 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 17W · Line 88

Position of Panel 17W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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 Third Class (PO3)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Gunner's Mate (Guns) (GMG)
Born
November 18, 1946
Home of record
New York, New York (Kings County)

Casualty

Date of death
October 18, 1969
Age
22
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Unknown

Context · from the records

What was happening

Ten names on the Wall carry the date October 18, 1969. In October 1969, 600 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 17W, Line 88

From New York

All 1370 names from New York →

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.