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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of George Allen Fogarty.

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GEORGE ALLEN FOGARTY

Private First Class · U.S. Army

April 30, 1946 – November 12, 1966

Service record

George Allen Fogarty, of Marion, Iowa, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on November 12, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 12E, Line 61 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 12E · Line 61

Position of Panel 12E 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. Army
Rank
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
4 INF DIV
Born
April 30, 1946
Home of record
Marion, Iowa (Linn County)

Casualty

Date of death
November 12, 1966
Age
20
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

38 names on the Wall carry the date November 12, 1966. In November 1966, 641 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 4th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 38 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 12E, Line 61

Same unit, same day

From Marion

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.