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An airman lights a candle during POW/MIA recognition week at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, North Carolina.
An airman lights a candle during POW/MIA recognition week at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, North Carolina. Photo: A1C Aaron Jenne, U.S. Air Force, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of George Edward Flynn III.

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GEORGE EDWARD FLYNN III

Captain · U.S. Air Force

January 6, 1938 – September 23, 1964

Service record

George Edward Flynn III, of New Orleans, Louisiana, served as a Captain in the U.S. Air Force. He was lost on September 23, 1964, in Khanh Hoa Province, South Vietnam, and was later declared dead. His name is inscribed on Panel 1E, Line 64 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 1E · Line 64

Position of Panel 1E 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. Air Force
Rank
Captain (CAPT)
Service
Regular
Born
January 6, 1938
Home of record
New Orleans, Louisiana

Casualty

Date of loss
September 23, 1964
Province
Khanh Hoa
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Declared Dead
Circumstance
Aircraft Crash — crew
First reported
Captured / prisoner of war

Context · from the records

What was happening

One name on the Wall carry the date September 23, 1964; he was the only one lost in Khanh Hoa Province that day. In September 1964, 12 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

His remains had not been recovered when the 2008 record was compiled. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency continues to search for Americans still missing from the war; families can find case information through dpaa.mil.

Also on Panel 1E, Line 64

From New Orleans

All 164 names from New Orleans →

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.