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GEORGE ELWOOD TONGEN
Private First Class · U.S. Army
August 7, 1947 – May 21, 1968
Service recordGeorge Elwood Tongen, of Walhalla, North Dakota, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on May 21, 1968, in Hua Nghia Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 65E, Line 3 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 65E · Line 3
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
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- August 7, 1947
- Home of record
- Walhalla, North Dakota (Pembina County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 21, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Hua Nghia
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
53 names on the Wall carry the date May 21, 1968; he was the only one lost in Hua Nghia Province that day. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 236 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 65E, Line 3
- ZBIGNIEW JOHN TOMASZEWSKIHospitalman · May 21, 1968
- ALLEN WALTER VANDERHOOFCorporal · May 21, 1968
- CHARLES EDWARD WALTHALLPrivate First Class · May 21, 1968
- RICHARD ALWIN WESKESpecialist Four · May 21, 1968
- FLORIAN J ZAHNStaff Sergeant · May 21, 1968
Same unit, same day
- JAMES ARTHUR BILLINGS JRStaff Sergeant · Panel 64E, Line 11
- ALLEN WALTER VANDERHOOFCorporal · Panel 65E, Line 3
From Walhalla
- GUNDER PETER RI GUNDERSONSergeant · November 23, 1965
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.