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TERRY DALE GEMAS
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
January 17, 1946 – December 29, 1966
Service recordTerry Dale Gemas, of Saugus, California, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on December 29, 1966, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 13E, Line 97 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 13E · Line 97
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Field Artillery Fire Control Man (0844)
- Born
- January 17, 1946
- Home of record
- Saugus, California (Los Angeles County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 29, 1966
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
33 names on the Wall carry the date December 29, 1966; seven of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In December 1966, 533 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 13E, Line 97
- ALEJANDRO GARCIA JRSpecialist Four · December 29, 1966
- DAVID RAY GATTONPrivate First Class · December 29, 1966
- JAMES DAVID GREENSpecialist Four · December 29, 1966
- TERRY SIDNEY GUNNPrivate First Class · December 29, 1966
From Saugus
- DAVID LEE REEDERSergeant · November 19, 1965
- JOSEPH SAMUEL GODWINPetty Officer Third Class · April 7, 1966
- FRANK DENNIS ORTEGAPrivate First Class · February 25, 1968
- JOHN WILLIAM BORDERS JRPetty Officer Second Class · March 8, 1968
- MICHAEL ANDREW FAYSpecialist Five · March 26, 1968
- CHARLES CLARENCE SMITH JRSpecialist Four · April 18, 1969
- HENRY CHESTER KLINGERSpecialist Four · January 1, 1970
- GARY ALLEN TURNBULLSergeant · May 10, 1970
- GARY ROBERT MONTELEONESpecialist Four · May 10, 1972
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.