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A 57th Medical Detachment crew loads a wounded soldier aboard a UH-1D “Dustoff” helicopter.
A 57th Medical Detachment crew loads a wounded soldier aboard a UH-1D “Dustoff” helicopter. Photo: SP4 James B. Egan, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Sevier Gray JR.

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SEVIER GRAY JR

Private First Class · U.S. Army

August 2, 1949 – April 22, 1970

Service record

Sevier Gray JR, of Grady, Arkansas, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on April 22, 1970, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 11W, Line 35 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 11W · Line 35

Position of Panel 11W 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
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Medical Equipment Repairer (91A)
Born
August 2, 1949
Home of record
Grady, Arkansas (Lincoln County)

Casualty

Date of death
April 22, 1970
Age
20
Province
Binh Dinh
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Illness
Circumstance
Infectious Disease

Context · from the records

What was happening

29 names on the Wall carry the date April 22, 1970; two of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In April 1970, 730 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 11W, Line 35

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.