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GEORGE DEWEY QUICK JR
Private First Class · U.S. Army
February 19, 1949 – January 22, 1970
Service recordGeorge Dewey Quick JR, of Bennettsville, South Carolina, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on January 22, 1970, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 14W, Line 58 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 14W · Line 58
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Food Service Specialist (94B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- February 19, 1949
- Home of record
- Bennettsville, South Carolina (Marlboro County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 22, 1970
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Binh Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
Nine names on the Wall carry the date January 22, 1970; he was the only one lost in Bình Định Province that day. In January 1970, 529 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 19 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 14W, Line 58
- DONALD HENRY MAJKOWSKICorporal · January 22, 1970
- LOWRENZO NEELEYCorporal · January 22, 1970
- DEAN ALLEN BORNEMANSpecialist Four · January 23, 1970
- ROBERT JOSEPH MULLENS JRFirst Lieutenant · January 23, 1970
From Bennettsville
- GORDON SAMUEL HUGGINSPlatoon Sergeant · November 1, 1965
- JIMMY EARL MUMFORDCorporal · February 5, 1967
- DONALD BURRIS POPELance Corporal · February 19, 1967
- VERNAR SLOANPrivate First Class · July 26, 1968
- BOBBY SPENCER MALICHISergeant First Class · December 25, 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.