GREEN BERETS Gallagher, John Theodore

[John Robertson]

• SURNAME

Gallagher ​

• FORENAME

John Theodore ​

• UNIT

5 SF Group (MACV- SOG - CCN) (FOB-3) ​

• RANK

Staff Sergeant ​

• NUMBER

141340325 ​

• DATE OF DEATH

5th January 1968 ​

• AGE

24 ​

• GRAVESITE

Central Burying Grounds,Hamden,New Haven County,Connecticut ​

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

from Hamden,Connecticut​

born 17.6.1943 Summit,New Jersey​

son of late Theodore J. and Helen (nee Harris) Gallagher​

graduated high school 1962​

entered service 25.12.1962 New Haven,Connecticut​

Army Garrison,Fort Bragg,North Carolina 1962-63​

USAJFKSWCS 1963-64​

MACV-SOG 1967-68​

single​

KIA when helicopter shot down near Muong Nong,Savannakhet Province,Laos​

UH-1D Huey (66-1172)​

body not recovered​

declared dead 30.5.1978 as Sergeant First Class​

National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific,Honolulu,Hawaii Courts of the Missing Court B​

remains repatriated 15.3.2002​

identified 13.11.2006​

interred 17.6.2008​

Arlington National Cemetery,Virginia Section 60 Site 8442 (group burial)​

Vietnam Veterans Memorial,Washington,D.C. Panel 33E Line 48 ​

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