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GEORGE AUSTIN CARNEY
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
April 9, 1947 – August 21, 1968
Service recordGeorge Austin Carney, of Pleasantville, New Jersey, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on August 21, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 47W, Line 15 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 47W · Line 15
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
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
- Born
- April 9, 1947
- Home of record
- Pleasantville, New Jersey (Atlantic County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 21, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
52 names on the Wall carry the date August 21, 1968; three of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In August 1968, 1,313 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 64 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 47W, Line 15
- DANNY LEE BLAKEFirst Lieutenant · August 21, 1968
- JOHN ARTHUR BOSCHPrivate First Class · August 21, 1968
- JAMES LEE BOWDENCorporal · August 21, 1968
- HERSHEL JOE BULLOCK SRWarrant Officer 1 · August 21, 1968
From Pleasantville
- JOSEPH DAVID PUGGISergeant First Class · February 2, 1968
- JAMES PATRICK MCCOLLUMCaptain · May 23, 1968
- HARRY JOHN JACKSON JRPrivate First Class · November 11, 1969
- JOSEPH PIPPENBACHSergeant · May 7, 1970
- CHARLIE WILLIAM TAYLORLance Corporal · August 17, 1970
- ALBERT ELWOOD METTINGERSergeant First Class · October 7, 1970
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.