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RONALD JACKSON GEBBIE
Petty Officer Third Class · U.S. Navy
June 17, 1948 – February 27, 1969
Service recordRonald Jackson Gebbie, of Rochester, New York, served as a Petty Officer Third Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on February 27, 1969, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 31W, Line 79 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 31W · Line 79
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
- June 17, 1948
- Home of record
- Rochester, New York (Monroe County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 27, 1969
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
59 names on the Wall carry the date February 27, 1969; 31 of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In February 1969, 1,304 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 31W, Line 79
- CHARLIE MELVIN ELLISONPetty Officer Second Class · February 27, 1969
- JOHN HENRY ERBESPrivate First Class · February 27, 1969
- DONALD JAY FISHERChief Petty Officer · February 27, 1969
- MIKE MORA GODINESPetty Officer First Class · February 27, 1969
From Rochester
- EUGENE RICHARDSONAirman First Class · October 24, 1964
- JOHN E EHRMENTRAUT JRPrivate First Class · April 24, 1965
- ALBERT S KNIGHT IIILance Corporal · June 22, 1965
- JOHN BERNARD TETTEPrivate First Class · August 18, 1965
- GEORGE STEPHEN BALAZYPrivate First Class · September 12, 1965
- JOSEPH CHRISTIANOColonel · December 24, 1965
- NOEL MICHAEL BARTOLFPrivate First Class · January 2, 1966
- NICHOLES SOCHACKIPrivate First Class · February 25, 1966
- RICHARD FLOYD SMITHPrivate First Class · March 16, 1966
- ROBERT JULIUS VANREYPENPrivate First Class · March 27, 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.