Name: SSG Terry Alan Gilbertson (posthumously promoted)
Status: Killed In
Action from an incident on 02/28/68 while performing the duty of Crew member
unspecified.
Age at death: 21.2
Date of Birth: 01/01/47
Home City:
Boscobel, WI
Service: component of the U.S. Army.
Unit: 242 ASHC
Major
organization: 1st Aviation Brigade
Service: U.S. Army.
The Wall location:
41E-065
Short Summary: Killed when a rocket or mortar hit hootch.
Service
number: 56451571
Country: South Vietnam
MOS: 35L20 = Avionic
Communications Equipment Repairer
Compliment cause: small arms
fire
Started Tour: 08/09/67
"Official" listing: ground casualty
Length
of service: 01
Location: Hau Nghia Province III Corps.
Reason: artillery
or rocket
Casualty type: Hostile - killed
single male U.S.
citizen
Race: Caucasian
Relgion: Lutheran (Missouri Synod)
The
following information secondary, but may help in explaining this
incident.
Category of casualty as defined by the Army: battle dead Category
of personnel: active duty Army Military class: enlisted personnel
This record
was last updated on 03/04/01
Please send additions or corrections to:
Gary Roush
43 Overbrook
Road
Painted Post, NY 14870
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