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GEORGE AUSTIN SANDERS
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
April 8, 1941 – December 10, 1966
Service recordGeorge Austin Sanders, of Bloomingdale, Ohio, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on December 10, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 13E, Line 30 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 13E · Line 30
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 INF DIV
- Born
- April 8, 1941
- Home of record
- Bloomingdale, Ohio (Jefferson County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 10, 1966
- Age
- 25
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
25 names on the Wall carry the date December 10, 1966. In December 1966, 533 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 56 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 13E, Line 30
- BOBBY HUDSONSpecialist Four · December 10, 1966
- JOHN STEPHEN SAYERFirst Lieutenant · December 10, 1966
- MONTE THOMAS SLOANCaptain · December 10, 1966
- ROBERT ANTHONY TWINGPrivate First Class · December 10, 1966
Same unit, same day
- MONTE THOMAS SLOANCaptain · Panel 13E, Line 30
From Bloomingdale
- RICHARD ALLEN WILLISLance Corporal · August 24, 1965
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.