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GEORGE CRAIG SCHOETTNER
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
February 13, 1946 – August 3, 1969
Service recordGeorge Craig Schoettner, of Trenton, New Jersey, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on August 3, 1969, in Binh Long Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 20W, Line 93 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 20W · Line 93
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. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 INF DIV
- Born
- February 13, 1946
- Home of record
- Trenton, New Jersey (Mercer County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 3, 1969
- Age
- 23
- Province
- Binh Long
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
17 names on the Wall carry the date August 3, 1969; two of them were lost in Binh Long Province. In August 1969, 962 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 41 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 20W, Line 93
- TERRENCE M MCDERMOTTFirst Lieutenant · August 3, 1969
- CARL EUGENE MORGANPrivate First Class · August 3, 1969
- DENNIS RAY ROBERTSPrivate First Class · August 3, 1969
- PHILLIP CHARLES SMITHSpecialist Four · August 3, 1969
Same unit, same day
- DAVID HENRY SHERLOCKFirst Lieutenant · Panel 20W, Line 92
From Trenton
- LEON JOSEPH KRAMERCaptain · January 31, 1963
- CARL ROBERT STEFFENPrivate First Class · December 25, 1965
- DENNIS JAMES BROPHYPrivate First Class · January 29, 1966
- JAMES EDWARD THOMPSONSergeant · February 13, 1966
- SHERMAN CHAPMAN JRSergeant First Class · June 23, 1966
- CLIFFORD RUSSELL STOUTPrivate First Class · November 21, 1966
- JOHN DONALD OSSMENPrivate First Class · February 21, 1967
- WILLIE DOWLING JRSpecialist Four · March 11, 1967
- ERWIN JOHN HAARWALDTPrivate First Class · March 20, 1967
- JOHN STEPHEN SZYMANSKIStaff Sergeant · March 23, 1967
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.