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GEORGE CARLTON MCCLEARY
Colonel · U.S. Air Force
October 19, 1922 – November 5, 1965
Service recordGeorge Carlton McCleary, of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, served as a Colonel in the U.S. Air Force. He was lost on November 5, 1965, in North Vietnam, and was later declared dead. His name is inscribed on Panel 3E, Line 22 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 3E · Line 22
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. Air Force
- Rank
- Colonel (COL)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Pilot (1115E)
- Born
- October 19, 1922
- Home of record
- Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Casualty
- Date of loss
- November 5, 1965
- Country
- North Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Declared Dead
- Circumstance
- Aircraft Crash — crew
- First reported
- Missing in action
Context · from the records
What was happening
Eight names on the Wall carry the date November 5, 1965. In November 1965, 545 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in North Vietnam while Operation Rolling Thunder was under way. Operation Rolling Thunder (March 1965–November 1968) was the sustained U.S. bombing campaign against North Vietnam, flown by Air Force fighter-bombers from Thailand and Navy aircraft from carriers in the Gulf of Tonkin against some of the densest air defenses in the world.
His remains had not been recovered when the 2008 record was compiled. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency continues to search for Americans still missing from the war; families can find case information through dpaa.mil.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 3E, Line 22
- RUSSELL EARL HAMMONDSergeant First Class · November 5, 1965
- LARRY ALLAN HENRY RAYSKIPrivate First Class · November 5, 1965
- ARLEN CLIFTON TUTTLEStaff Sergeant · November 5, 1965
- JAMES LOUIS ALLENPrivate First Class · November 6, 1965
From Baton Rouge
- THOMAS MOOREChief Master Sergeant · October 31, 1965
- LARRY NELSONSpecialist Four · January 19, 1966
- PHILLIP HEASE HOLMES JRMajor · June 8, 1966
- WALTER LOUIS WELLSSpecialist Four · September 22, 1966
- CARROLL GENE HOGEMANCaptain · November 26, 1966
- WILLIE GRANT JRSpecialist Four · March 21, 1967
- LEROY JOHN OLIVER KLINGPrivate First Class · November 17, 1967
- WILLIAM BRIAN HAYSCorporal · November 30, 1967
- THOMAS DALTON BABIN JRFirst Lieutenant · January 4, 1968
- EMILE COLEStaff Sergeant · January 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.