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GEORGE EDWARD PETERS JR
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
February 24, 1948 – May 1, 1968
Service recordGeorge Edward Peters JR, of St Xavier, Montana, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on May 1, 1968, in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 53E, Line 40 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 53E · Line 40
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
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 11 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- February 24, 1948
- Home of record
- St Xavier, Montana (Big Horn County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 1, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Ngai
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
85 names on the Wall carry the date May 1, 1968; three of them were lost in Quảng Ngãi Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 11th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 48 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 53E, Line 40
- GERALD LOYD PARSONSPrivate First Class · May 1, 1968
- RAPHAEL ALEXANDER PERALTAPrivate First Class · May 1, 1968
- DWIGHT GERALD REICHLELance Corporal · May 1, 1968
- DONALD RAYMOND SCHAFERSeaman Apprentice · May 1, 1968
Same unit, same day
- WILLIAM ARTHUR THOMAS JRPrivate First Class · Panel 53E, Line 42
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.