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GEORGE CHARLES PETERS
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Air Force
February 3, 1942 – June 23, 1969
Service recordGeorge Charles Peters, of Roodhouse, Illinois, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Air Force. He died on June 23, 1969, in South Vietnam, at age 27. His name is inscribed on Panel 21W, Line 1 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 21W · Line 1
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
- Staff Sergeant (SSGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Born
- February 3, 1942
- Home of record
- Roodhouse, Illinois (Greene County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 23, 1969
- Age
- 27
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
65 names on the Wall carry the date June 23, 1969. In June 1969, 1,246 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 21W, Line 1
- JEFFREY ROBERTS BARBERLance Corporal · June 23, 1969
- WARREN PAULSENPetty Officer Third Class · June 23, 1969
- EDGAR STEVAN PITTMANSpecialist Four · June 23, 1969
- TERRY MICHAEL REEDFirst Lieutenant · June 23, 1969
- JOSEPH BURNITT RIGGSSpecialist Four · June 23, 1969
From Roodhouse
- TEDDY WAYNE STEELMANSpecialist Four · February 27, 1967
- JESSE VIRGINIUS HAWK IIIStaff Sergeant · June 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.