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CLAUDE MARVIN GEORGE
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
April 16, 1949 – June 5, 1968
Service recordClaude Marvin George, of Hammond, Indiana, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on June 5, 1968, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 60W, Line 17 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 60W · Line 17
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- April 16, 1949
- Home of record
- Hammond, Indiana (Lake County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 5, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
53 names on the Wall carry the date June 5, 1968; 14 of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In June 1968, 1,257 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 60W, Line 17
- JEFFERY EVAN FESERLance Corporal · June 5, 1968
- JUAN F GARCIA-FIGUEROALance Corporal · June 5, 1968
- MACARTHUR G GEESergeant · June 5, 1968
- AUGUST GONSALVES JRSergeant · June 5, 1968
From Hammond
- DONALD RAY VINSONSergeant · July 14, 1965
- JAMES EDMUND KEELERCorporal · March 19, 1966
- BENNY EDWARD FOSTERPrivate First Class · May 26, 1966
- JAMES RONALD SECHRESTPrivate First Class · August 15, 1966
- GARY STEPHEN EDWARDSSpecialist Four · January 20, 1967
- HENRY JOSEPH MARKOWSKI JRPrivate First Class · April 8, 1967
- WILLIAM EUGENE CZARNYLance Corporal · May 9, 1967
- BERNARD MERLE LUSKPrivate First Class · August 28, 1967
- TIMOTHY ROBERT KESSLERSpecialist Four · January 15, 1968
- WAYNE ALLEN MICHALAKAirman · February 4, 1968
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.