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GEORGE ALBERT BELL JR
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
October 14, 1946 – August 24, 1965
Service recordGeorge Albert Bell JR, of Seat Pleasant, Maryland, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on August 24, 1965, in South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 5E, Line 73 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 5E · Line 73
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
- Assault Amphibious Vehicle Crewman (1833)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 AMTRACS 3 MARDIV
- Born
- October 14, 1946
- Home of record
- Seat Pleasant, Maryland (Prince George's County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 24, 1965
- Age
- 18
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Aircraft Crash — Passenger (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
61 names on the Wall carry the date August 24, 1965. In August 1965, 179 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 5E, Line 73
- LARRY LEE KEENERCorporal · February 24, 1966
- JOE CHARLES LILE IISpecialist Four · February 24, 1966
- ROBERT KINLOCH LOWESpecialist Five · February 24, 1966
- ROBERT DELL MERRELLSpecialist Four · February 24, 1966
- GEORGE ALLEN MORGANPrivate First Class · February 24, 1966
From Seat Pleasant
- JAMES KENNEDY JRPrivate First Class · May 18, 1966
- RICHARD LEE SHUCKSergeant · February 24, 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.