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STEPHEN DOUGLAS GUCOFSKI
Private First Class · U.S. Army
December 29, 1949 – March 22, 1971
Service recordStephen Douglas Gucofski, of Ft Myers, Florida, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on March 22, 1971, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 4W, Line 66 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 4W · Line 66
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
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 5 INF DIV MECH
- Born
- December 29, 1949
- Home of record
- Ft Myers, Florida (Lee County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 22, 1971
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
24 names on the Wall carry the date March 22, 1971; 13 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In March 1971, 429 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “5 INF DIV MECH”, his unit in the record, lost 42 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 4W, Line 66
- REGINALD DAVID CLEVEWarrant Officer 1 · March 22, 1971
- BENJAMIN WAYNE DUNCANPrivate First Class · March 22, 1971
- WILLIAM STUART GLENNPrivate First Class · March 22, 1971
- WALTER RAY HALLSpecialist Four · March 22, 1971
Same unit, same day
- CHRISTOPHER ZENO CZARNOTAPrivate First Class · Panel 4W, Line 65
- ROBERT NORMAND LEBRUNSpecialist Four · Panel 4W, Line 68
- CHARLIE MATTHEW LOGANSpecialist Four · Panel 4W, Line 68
From Ft Myers
- ERNEST M SCHULTZ IIISpecialist Five · February 10, 1965
- CHRISTOPHER J DEAN JRPrivate First Class · May 11, 1966
- ROY DONALD HUTTINGSergeant · September 25, 1966
- GEORGE DANIEL THEISENPrivate First Class · December 13, 1966
- ROBERT FULTON HELVESTONPrivate First Class · February 4, 1967
- THOMAS LEE MCGEEPrivate First Class · March 11, 1967
- WILLIE JAMES MOOREPrivate First Class · June 8, 1967
- CLAYTON MARQUI SPAINHOWERPrivate First Class · December 6, 1967
- CULLIE WILSON BRYANTSpecialist Four · January 13, 1968
- ROBERT EUGENE WHITTENSergeant · May 8, 1968
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.