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| Name: | Dennis Lee Gauthier |
| Rank/Branch: | E3/US Army |
| Unit: | Company C, 3rd Battalion, 12th Infantry, 1st Brigade, 4th Infantry Division (Ivy Division) |
| Date of Birth (DOB): | 08 August 1949 (Duluth MN) |
| Home City of Record: | Rochester MI |
| Loss Date: | 31 October 1969 |
| Country of Loss: | South Vietnam |
| Loss Coordinates: | 140656N 1074341E (YA944622) |
| Status (in 1973): | Missing In Action |
| Category: | 2 |
| Acft/Vehicle/Ground: | Ground |
| Refno: | 1507 |
| Other Personnel in Incident: | (none missing) |
| Source: | Compiled from one or more of the following: raw data from U.S. Government agency sources, correspondence with POW/MIA families, published sources, interviews. Updated by the P.O.W. NETWORK in 1998. |
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| PFC Dennis L. Gauthier was with Army ground forces in Pleiku, South Vietnam on October 31, 1969. He was serving as a rifleman when his company was attempting to withdraw from an ambush, and PFC Gautier's platoon was sent up a hill to provide covering fire for the company. The platoon began receiving fire and engaged in a fire fight with the enemy. Gautier was hit in the leg, and another men was hit, but they could not be immediately evacuated. PFC Gautier hid behind a log while the others advanced.
On November 2, a reconnaissance platoon was able to search the area. This platoon found and recovered the body of the other soldier, but found no trace of Gautier or any of his personal effects. Dennis was barely 20 years old. There are nearly 2500 Americans missing in Southeast Asia. Mounting evidence indicates that some of them are still alive, held captive by the communists of the region. The Paris Peace agreements of 1973 dictated that the Vietnamese would return all prisoners of war and make the fullest possible accounting of the missing. They did not do either. Men known to have been prisoner of war were not released. Many men who died in captivity have not been returned for burial. The U.S. Government policy statement is that we do not have actionable evidence of Americans held captive, yet points to "several million documents" relating to these men. Until serious effort is made to find those men we left behind, their famlies will wonder whether their men are alive or dead - and why they have been abandoned by the country they proudly served. |
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| DENNIS LEE GAUTHIER
SSGT - E6 - Army - Selective Service 27 year old Single, Caucasian, Male Date of Birth - Aug 08, 1949 From - ROCHESTER, MICHIGAN His tour of duty began on Oct 31, 1969 Casualty was on Jun 15, 1977 in PLEIKU, SOUTH VIETNAM Hostile, died while missing GROUND CASUALTY Body was not recovered Religion - ROMAN CATHOLIC Panel 16W - - Line 8 |
Source: The VietNam Veterans' Memorial Wall Page. |
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