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GEORGE COUTRAKIS
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
March 27, 1948 – July 2, 1967
Service recordGeorge Coutrakis, of Ripon, California, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on July 2, 1967, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 22E, Line 99 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 22E · Line 99
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- March 27, 1948
- Home of record
- Ripon, California (San Joaquin County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- July 2, 1967
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
127 names on the Wall carry the date July 2, 1967; 93 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In July 1967, 1,057 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 22E, Line 99
- KENNETH EUGENE COESpecialist Four · July 2, 1967
- PHILIP HOWELL CONVERSEHospitalman · July 2, 1967
- CHARLES ERNEST CRAINPrivate First Class · July 2, 1967
- FRANK DAVILACorporal · July 2, 1967
From Ripon
- GARY LEON VANTOLCorporal · June 13, 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.