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SANFORD RENE GABORIAULT
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
August 25, 1939 – May 6, 1968
Service recordSanford Rene Gaboriault, of Franklin, Vermont, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on May 6, 1968, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 28. His name is inscribed on Panel 56E, Line 6 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 56E · Line 6
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
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Armor Crewman (11E)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 4 INF DIV
- Born
- August 25, 1939
- Home of record
- Franklin, Vermont (Franklin County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 6, 1968
- Age
- 28
- Province
- Binh Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
102 names on the Wall carry the date May 6, 1968; 16 of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 4th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 99 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 56E, Line 6
- THOMAS AMISS FOXCorporal · May 6, 1968
- JAMES BARRY GARDPrivate · May 6, 1968
- ROBERT JACOB GARRIDOAirman First Class · May 6, 1968
- SYDNEY WILLIAM KLEMMERSergeant · May 6, 1968
Same unit, same day
- JAMES WILLIAM DIALStaff Sergeant · Panel 56E, Line 5
From Franklin
- JAMES GEORGE WITHAMSpecialist Four · May 16, 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.