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CHRISTIAN GEORGE GIRARD
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
July 28, 1940 – April 8, 1969
Service recordChristian George Girard, of Oceana, Virginia, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on April 8, 1969, in Cambodia, at age 28. His name is inscribed on Panel 27W, Line 37 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 27W · Line 37
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
- Sergeant First Class (SFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantry Operations And Intelligence Specialist (11F)
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- July 28, 1940
- Home of record
- Oceana, Virginia (Virginia Beach (City) County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 8, 1969
- Age
- 28
- Country
- Cambodia
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
41 names on the Wall carry the date April 8, 1969. In April 1969, 1,023 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 13 of its members that month.
The record places this loss in Cambodia, outside South Vietnam.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 27W, Line 37
- DONALD RAY COOPERCorporal · April 8, 1969
- KENNETH JULIAN ELLINGTONSpecialist Four · April 8, 1969
- ROBERT ALAN FULKERSONSpecialist Four · April 8, 1969
- DENNIS LEE ROADSSpecialist Four · April 8, 1969
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.