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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault.
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Sammy Manuel Gullart.

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SAMMY MANUEL GULLART

Sergeant · U.S. Army

July 17, 1949 – May 26, 1970

Service record

Sammy Manuel Gullart, of Los Angeles, California, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on May 26, 1970, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 10W, Line 103 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 10W · Line 103

Position of Panel 10W 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. Army
Rank
Sergeant (SGT)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
101 AIRBORNE DIV
Born
July 17, 1949
Home of record
Los Angeles, California (Los Angeles County)

Casualty

Date of death
May 26, 1970
Age
20
Province
Thua Thien
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Grenade

Context · from the records

What was happening

31 names on the Wall carry the date May 26, 1970; six of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In May 1970, 917 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 170 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 10W, Line 103

Same unit, same day

From Los Angeles

All 540 names from Los Angeles →

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.