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GEORGE ELMER CANNON SR
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
August 16, 1938 – August 6, 1969
Service recordGeorge Elmer Cannon SR, of Tarboro, North Carolina, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on August 6, 1969, in Long Khanh Province, South Vietnam, at age 30. His name is inscribed on Panel 20W, Line 102 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 20W · Line 102
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
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Combat Engineer (12B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 11 ARMORED CAV
- Born
- August 16, 1938
- Home of record
- Tarboro, North Carolina (Edgecombe County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 6, 1969
- Age
- 30
- Province
- Long Khanh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
29 names on the Wall carry the date August 6, 1969; he was the only one lost in Long Khanh Province that day. In August 1969, 962 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “11 ARMORED CAV”, his unit in the record, lost 15 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 20W, Line 102
- STANLEY BERNARD HOJNOWSKISpecialist Four · August 6, 1969
- ROBERT BAILEY HOWARDChief Warrant Officer 2 · August 6, 1969
- BOBBY JOE JONESStaff Sergeant · August 6, 1969
- MICHAEL DENNIS KELLYStaff Sergeant · August 6, 1969
From Tarboro
- CARL LOUIS DOUGHTIELieutenant (junior grade) · June 10, 1965
- FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT THORPELance Corporal · June 15, 1967
- HOWARD ARNOLD SESSOMSStaff Sergeant · June 21, 1967
- CICERO WHITFIELD JRSpecialist Four · August 22, 1967
- HUGH ELROY BEST IIIFirst Lieutenant · January 29, 1969
- BOBBY EUGENE JONESSpecialist Four · January 30, 1970
- WILLIAM I ALLSBROOK JRPrivate First Class · October 2, 1970
- THOMAS REUBEN BRADLEYSpecialist Four · November 21, 1970
- WILLIAM HASSELL THIGPENFirst Lieutenant · January 16, 1971
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.