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A Navy Swift boat patrols the Long Tàu River to keep the channel to Saigon open, December 1966.
A Navy Swift boat patrols the Long Tàu River to keep the channel to Saigon open, December 1966. Photo: PH1 V.H. McColley, U.S. Navy, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of William Jeffery Gulley.

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WILLIAM JEFFERY GULLEY

Seaman Apprentice · U.S. Navy

January 1, 1950 – June 11, 1970

Service record

William Jeffery Gulley, of Riverton, Utah, served as a Seaman Apprentice in the U.S. Navy. He died on June 11, 1970, in Gia Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 9W, Line 43 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 9W · Line 43

Position of Panel 9W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Navy
Rank
Seaman Apprentice (SA)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Seaman (SN)
Born
January 1, 1950
Home of record
Riverton, Utah (Salt Lake County)

Casualty

Date of death
June 11, 1970
Age
20
Province
Gia Dinh
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Drowning

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21 names on the Wall carry the date June 11, 1970; he was the only one lost in Gia Dinh Province that day. In June 1970, 560 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

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From Riverton

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.