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GEORGE BELANGER
Private First Class · U.S. Army
April 26, 1947 – October 24, 1966
Service recordGeorge Belanger, of Waterville, Maine, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on October 24, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 11E, Line 102 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 11E · Line 102
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- April 26, 1947
- Home of record
- Waterville, Maine (Kennebec County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 24, 1966
- Age
- 19
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
12 names on the Wall carry the date October 24, 1966. In October 1966, 516 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 23 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 11E, Line 102
- JOHN FLOYD COCHRANEFirst Lieutenant · October 24, 1966
- LAWRENCE CARL DOBRENZAirman First Class · October 24, 1966
- DENIS WAYNE GALLOWAYFirst Lieutenant · October 24, 1966
- CHESTER WILFORD KNIGHTSpecialist Four · October 24, 1966
From Waterville
- LAWRENCE VINCENT PETERSStaff Sergeant · April 20, 1966
- CHARLES HOMER MILLSStaff Sergeant · June 30, 1966
- JAMES GERARD POMERLEAUCorporal · April 24, 1967
- ROBERT LEOPOLD CLUKEY JRSpecialist Five · June 17, 1967
- ELDON WAYNE SMITHSergeant · October 6, 1968
- RODNEY JEROME DELISLEPrivate First Class · July 6, 1969
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.