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Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969.
Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969. Photo: U.S. Marine Corps, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of George Dewey Hutcheson.

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GEORGE DEWEY HUTCHESON

Sergeant · U.S. Marine Corps

December 12, 1941 – September 1, 1969

Service record

George Dewey Hutcheson, of Pensacola, Florida, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on September 1, 1969, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 27. His name is inscribed on Panel 18W, Line 20 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 18W · Line 20

Position of Panel 18W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Sergeant (SGT)
Service
Regular
Born
December 12, 1941
Home of record
Pensacola, Florida (Escambia County)

Casualty

Date of death
September 1, 1969
Age
27
Province
Thua Thien
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Helicopter Crash — crew

Context · from the records

What was happening

22 names on the Wall carry the date September 1, 1969; six of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In September 1969, 664 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 18W, Line 20

From Pensacola

All 74 names from Pensacola →

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.