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VICTOR GENE SPRAY
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
January 29, 1942 – February 6, 1967
Service recordVictor Gene Spray, of Pinellas Park, Florida, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on February 6, 1967, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 15E, Line 1 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 15E · Line 1
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 INF DIV
- Born
- January 29, 1942
- Home of record
- Pinellas Park, Florida (Pinellas County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 6, 1967
- Age
- 25
- Province
- Binh Duong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
43 names on the Wall carry the date February 6, 1967; he was the only one lost in Bình Dương Province that day. In February 1967, 767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 69 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 15E, Line 1
- EDWARD EARL SCHELLPrivate First Class · February 6, 1967
- RICHARD DEWITT B SHEPHERDFirst Lieutenant · February 6, 1967
- CHRISTOPHER SCOTT SIGMANSpecialist Four · February 6, 1967
- PATRICK HARDY WOODColonel · February 6, 1967
Same unit, same day
- MAX EUGENE BROWN JRPrivate First Class · Panel 14E, Line 126
- KENNETH JACK FLETCHERPrivate First Class · Panel 14E, Line 131
- MICHAEL CARL NEWMANSpecialist Four · Panel 14E, Line 131
- RICHARD DEWITT B SHEPHERDFirst Lieutenant · Panel 15E, Line 1
- CHRISTOPHER SCOTT SIGMANSpecialist Four · Panel 15E, Line 1
- ROGER LEE TANNERSpecialist Four · Panel 15E, Line 2
- RUSSEL LEE WATSONStaff Sergeant · Panel 15E, Line 3
From Pinellas Park
- RICHARD WALTER DIERSSergeant · November 20, 1968
- JAMES ROBBINS LEWIS JRPrivate First Class · December 7, 1968
- LONNIE PITTS NEWLANDPrivate First Class · November 1, 1969
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.