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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of George Edward Joyce.

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GEORGE EDWARD JOYCE

Private · U.S. Army

September 15, 1943 – December 5, 1965

Service record

George Edward Joyce, of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, served as a Private in the U.S. Army. He died on December 5, 1965, in South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 3E, Line 128 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 3E · Line 128

Position of Panel 3E 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. Army
Rank
Private (PVT)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
1 INF DIV
Born
September 15, 1943
Home of record
Portsmouth, New Hampshire (Rockingham County)

Casualty

Date of death
December 5, 1965
Age
22
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Grenade

Context · from the records

What was happening

49 names on the Wall carry the date December 5, 1965. In December 1965, 326 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 77 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 3E, Line 128

Same unit, same day

From Portsmouth

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.