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Marines use an M48 tank as cover in the street fighting in Huế, 4 February 1968.
Marines use an M48 tank as cover in the street fighting in Huế, 4 February 1968. Photo: SSgt Jack L. Harlan, USMC, CC BY 2.0. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of George Albert Juarez.

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GEORGE ALBERT JUAREZ

Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps

November 17, 1949 – March 20, 1968

Service record

George Albert Juarez, of Pico Rivera, California, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on March 20, 1968, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 45E, Line 40 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 45E · Line 40

Position of Panel 45E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
November 17, 1949
Home of record
Pico Rivera, California (Los Angeles County)

Casualty

Date of death
March 20, 1968
Age
18
Province
Quang Nam
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

41 names on the Wall carry the date March 20, 1968; three of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

He died in Quảng Nam Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.

Also on Panel 45E, Line 40

From Pico Rivera

All 24 names from Pico Rivera →

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.