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TERRY ALAN GILBERTSON
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
January 1, 1947 – February 28, 1968
Service recordTerry Alan Gilbertson, of Boscobel, Wisconsin, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on February 28, 1968, in Hua Nghia Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 41E, Line 65 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 41E · Line 65
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Avionic Communications Equipment Repairer (35L)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 AVN BDE
- Born
- January 1, 1947
- Home of record
- Boscobel, Wisconsin (Grant County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 28, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Hua Nghia
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
91 names on the Wall carry the date February 28, 1968; 11 of them were lost in Hua Nghia Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Aviation Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 61 of its members that month.
He died in Hua Nghia Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Also on Panel 41E, Line 65
- DANNY D GARDCorporal · February 28, 1968
- JOHN DEAN HALLCorporal · February 28, 1968
- WARREN GUTHRIE HARDING JRSergeant · February 28, 1968
- EARL WAYNE HARRISPrivate First Class · February 28, 1968
Same unit, same day
- THEUS EVERETTE DELAIGLESergeant · Panel 41E, Line 62
- ROY WILLIAM DUNCANPrivate First Class · Panel 41E, Line 63
- RAY G JENKINSWarrant Officer 1 · Panel 41E, Line 67
- STEVEN JAY POPKINCaptain · Panel 41E, Line 71
From Boscobel
- RICHARD LYLE PITZERCorporal · March 6, 1968
- LELAND EUGENE RADLEYPrivate First Class · August 25, 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.