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PETER JOSEPH GALLO

First Lieutenant · U.S. Army

January 29, 1946 – March 30, 1968

Service record

Peter Joseph Gallo, of Livingston, California, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on March 30, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 47E, Line 10 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 47E · Line 10

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Service

Branch: U.S. Army
Rank: First Lieutenant (1LT)
Service: Reserve / National Guard
Occupation: Tank Unit Commander (1203)
Unit (as recorded): 3/5 CAV 9 INF DIV
Born: January 29, 1946
Home of record: Livingston, California (Merced County)

Casualty

Date of death: March 30, 1968
Age: 22
Province: Quang Tri
Country: South Vietnam
Casualty type: Hostile
Category: Killed in Action
Circumstance: Artillery/Mortar/Rocket

Context · from the records

What was happening

58 names on the Wall carry the date March 30, 1968; 30 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The unit recorded as “3/5 CAV 9 INF DIV”, his unit in the record, lost 20 of its members that month.

He died in Quảng Trị Province while the siege of Khe Sanh was under way. From 21 January 1968, North Vietnamese divisions besieged the Marine combat base at Khe Sanh and its hill outposts near the Laotian border for 77 days, while U.S. aircraft dropped some 100,000 tons of bombs around it. Operation Pegasus reached the base on 8 April. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.

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Also on Panel 47E, Line 10

JAMES THOMAS CUMMINGS JRPrivate First Class · March 30, 1968
CHARLES HENRY DYCHESPrivate First Class · March 30, 1968
THOMAS BERNARD FERGUSONSecond Lieutenant · March 30, 1968
EDWARD LEE GLOVERPrivate First Class · March 30, 1968

Same unit, same day

PATRICK KEVIN BURKECorporal · Panel 47E, Line 9
GEORGE EDWARD GRUBBSCorporal · Panel 47E, Line 11
BERT AUSTIN KEELERSergeant · Panel 47E, Line 12
JAMES EARL MORSECorporal · Panel 47E, Line 14
DENNIS MICHAEL POTEATStaff Sergeant · Panel 47E, Line 17
CHARLES E SHAWSpecialist Four · Panel 47E, Line 17
STEPHAN MAX WIGGINSSergeant · Panel 47E, Line 18
WILBUR LEO WILLIAMS JRPrivate First Class · Panel 47E, Line 18

From Livingston

FRANCISCO M TRUJILLOCorporal · December 2, 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.