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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault.
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Virgil D Griffy.

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VIRGIL D GRIFFY

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

October 6, 1943 – November 29, 1965

Service record

Virgil D Griffy, of Creola, Ohio, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on November 29, 1965, in South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 3E, Line 117 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 3E · Line 117

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
1 INF DIV
Born
October 6, 1943
Home of record
Creola, Ohio (Vinton County)

Casualty

Date of death
November 29, 1965
Age
22
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Died of Wounds
Circumstance
Grenade

Context · from the records

What was happening

Six names on the Wall carry the date November 29, 1965. In November 1965, 545 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.

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From Creola

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.