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GEORGE BRIAN ALLISON
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
September 27, 1947 – April 27, 1968
Service recordGeorge Brian Allison, of Chelsea, Oklahoma, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on April 27, 1968, in Dinh Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 52E, Line 29 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 52E · Line 29
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Medical Specialist (91B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- September 27, 1947
- Home of record
- Chelsea, Oklahoma (Rogers County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 27, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Dinh Tuong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
30 names on the Wall carry the date April 27, 1968; he was the only one lost in Định Tường Province that day. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 96 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 52E, Line 29
- MELVIN JEROME DECKERLance Corporal · April 27, 1968
- JONATHON LEE GENSSpecialist Four · April 27, 1968
- MARTIN WILLIAM GUARDSpecialist Four · April 27, 1968
- FERNANDO GUTIERREZPrivate First Class · April 27, 1968
From Chelsea
- DAVID LEE HUBBARD JRStaff Sergeant · May 16, 1965
- THOMAS JOSEPH BARBEESpecialist Four · January 24, 1967
- DAVID ALFORD BRADSHAWSpecialist Four · November 14, 1968
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.