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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault.
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of George Allen Morgan.

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GEORGE ALLEN MORGAN

Private First Class · U.S. Army

November 20, 1940 – February 24, 1966

Service record

George Allen Morgan, of Chicago, Illinois, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on February 24, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 5E, Line 73 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 5E · Line 73

Position of Panel 5E 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
Field Artillery Basic (13A)
Unit (as recorded)
1 INF DIV
Born
November 20, 1940
Home of record
Chicago, Illinois (Cook County)

Casualty

Date of death
February 24, 1966
Age
25
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

34 names on the Wall carry the date February 24, 1966. In February 1966, 513 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 83 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 5E, Line 73

Same unit, same day

From Chicago

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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.