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TERRY SIDNEY GUNN
Private First Class · U.S. Army
March 21, 1948 – December 29, 1966
Service recordTerry Sidney Gunn, of Mobile, Alabama, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on December 29, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 13E, Line 97 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 13E · Line 97
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 INF DIV
- Born
- March 21, 1948
- Home of record
- Mobile, Alabama (Mobile County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 29, 1966
- Age
- 18
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
33 names on the Wall carry the date December 29, 1966. In December 1966, 533 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 56 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 13E, Line 97
- ALEJANDRO GARCIA JRSpecialist Four · December 29, 1966
- DAVID RAY GATTONPrivate First Class · December 29, 1966
- TERRY DALE GEMASPrivate First Class · December 29, 1966
- JAMES DAVID GREENSpecialist Four · December 29, 1966
Same unit, same day
- LEE V BEARDENSpecialist Four · Panel 13E, Line 95
- DAVID RAY GATTONPrivate First Class · Panel 13E, Line 97
- BILLY NEAL HARPERSpecialist Four · Panel 13E, Line 98
From Mobile
- ANDREW C MITCHELL IIICaptain · April 8, 1963
- DAVID RUDOLPH DICKENSFirst Sergeant · November 1, 1965
- EDDIE LEE HILL JRCorporal · November 4, 1965
- SHERMAN ELDRIDGE OTISPrivate First Class · November 17, 1965
- NATHANIEL EARL CARTER IIISergeant · November 25, 1965
- ROBERT EDWARD BEXLEYPrivate First Class · January 30, 1966
- ROBERT LOUIS BEATONSergeant · February 22, 1966
- JOSEPH EMMETT LILLEYPrivate First Class · May 14, 1966
- JAMES DWIGHT NEWCOMBLance Corporal · July 17, 1966
- TIMOTHY SCOTT DAVIESLance Corporal · July 20, 1966
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.