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RAYMOND GARTH
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
November 13, 1944 – November 13, 1967
Service recordRaymond Garth, of Tanner, Alabama, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on November 13, 1967, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 29E, Line 89 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 29E · Line 89
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 4 INF DIV
- Born
- November 13, 1944
- Home of record
- Tanner, Alabama (Limestone County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 13, 1967
- Age
- 23
- Province
- Quang Tin
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
32 names on the Wall carry the date November 13, 1967; four of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In November 1967, 1,133 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 4th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 142 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 29E, Line 89
- LAFRANCIS HARDIMANPrivate First Class · November 13, 1967
- ALPHONSO LEE HARMONPrivate First Class · November 13, 1967
- ZAN HESSSpecialist Four · November 13, 1967
- VANESTER LAMAR HESTERSpecialist Five · November 13, 1967
Same unit, same day
- JOHN LOUIS BARNHARTPrivate First Class · Panel 29E, Line 87
- GLENN R EISENHOURSecond Lieutenant · Panel 29E, Line 88
- JOSEPH LAMAR HYATTSpecialist Four · Panel 29E, Line 90
- LAWRENCE ALLEN LETTERMANPrivate First Class · Panel 29E, Line 90
- DENNIS EUGENE WARNEPrivate First Class · Panel 29E, Line 93
From Tanner
- HERMAN LEE TROUPEPrivate First Class · August 18, 1966
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.