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WILLIE GENE GADDY
Private First Class · U.S. Army
November 29, 1949 – September 29, 1968
Service recordWillie Gene Gaddy, of Griffin, Georgia, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on September 29, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 42W, Line 40 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 42W · Line 40
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. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- November 29, 1949
- Home of record
- Griffin, Georgia (Spalding County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 29, 1968
- Age
- 18
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
34 names on the Wall carry the date September 29, 1968; three of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In September 1968, 1,184 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 90 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 42W, Line 40
- JOHN EDDIE GIBSONPrivate First Class · September 29, 1968
- RICHARD OWEN GULLIXSONPrivate First Class · September 29, 1968
- ROBERT RICHARD HAMILTONSpecialist Five · September 29, 1968
- SHERWOOD DAVID KREISWarrant Officer 1 · September 29, 1968
Same unit, same day
- RICHARD OWEN GULLIXSONPrivate First Class · Panel 42W, Line 40
From Griffin
- JAMES EDWARD HARMONCorporal · May 8, 1967
- JOHN KENNETH HELTONSergeant · July 6, 1967
- WARREN EUGENE KENERLYCorporal · January 31, 1968
- MONTE CLIFFORD KINASZPrivate First Class · March 25, 1968
- DAVID MURPHYCorporal · April 23, 1968
- JAMES TERRY COGGINSPrivate First Class · June 28, 1968
- CHARLES WAYNE HALLPrivate First Class · November 7, 1968
- JAMES ROBERT REESEFirst Lieutenant · December 2, 1968
- MINOR WESLEY PATTILLOSergeant · March 24, 1969
- GARY ANDERSONPrivate · November 29, 1970
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.