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GEORGE CREIGHTON VASSEY
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
September 14, 1934 – August 4, 1968
Service recordGeorge Creighton Vassey, of Mechanicsville, Virginia, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on August 4, 1968, in Gia Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 33. His name is inscribed on Panel 49W, Line 10 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 49W · Line 10
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
- Sergeant First Class (SFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Military Police (95B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 INF DIV
- Born
- September 14, 1934
- Home of record
- Mechanicsville, Virginia (Hanover County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 4, 1968
- Age
- 33
- Province
- Gia Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Illness
- Circumstance
- Heart Related
Context · from the records
What was happening
24 names on the Wall carry the date August 4, 1968; two of them were lost in Gia Dinh Province. In August 1968, 1,313 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 62 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 49W, Line 10
- JAMES A HUFFPrivate First Class · August 4, 1968
- MIGUEL A NEGRON-RODRIGUEZSergeant · August 4, 1968
- JOHN ROBERT SCHMUDECorporal · August 4, 1968
- RONALD BURTON TAYLORCorporal · August 4, 1968
From Mechanicsville
- JOHN JOSEPH MONAGHAN JRSecond Lieutenant · May 25, 1968
- RAYMOND ALLEN CHARTIERPrivate First Class · November 20, 1969
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.