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GEORGE EVERETT SHADE
Hospitalman · U.S. Navy
June 7, 1945 – October 13, 1967
Service recordGeorge Everett Shade, of Lansdale, Pennsylvania, served as a Hospitalman in the U.S. Navy. He died on October 13, 1967, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 27E, Line 103 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 27E · Line 103
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. Navy
- Rank
- Hospitalman (HN)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Hospital Corpsman (HM)
- Unit (as recorded)
- HS CO 1 BN 9 MAR 3 MARDIV
- Born
- June 7, 1945
- Home of record
- Lansdale, Pennsylvania (Montgomery County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 13, 1967
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
33 names on the Wall carry the date October 13, 1967; four of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In October 1967, 906 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in Quảng Trị Province while the siege of Con Thien was under way. Through September and October 1967, North Vietnamese artillery across the Demilitarized Zone pounded the Marine outpost at Con Thien and the bases along the DMZ in Quảng Trị Province. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Also on Panel 27E, Line 103
- RICHARD JUNIOR JONESPrivate First Class · October 13, 1967
- JAMES PAUL PURKEYSpecialist Five · October 13, 1967
- EDWARD JOHN RAFFERTYStaff Sergeant · October 13, 1967
- ROLLEEN C SORIMPrivate First Class · October 13, 1967
From Lansdale
- ARMAND JAMES AUFIEREPrivate First Class · January 27, 1967
- MARK THOMAS LINDERMANPrivate First Class · July 21, 1967
- JOHN ANTHONY GLORIOSOCorporal · April 30, 1968
- PAUL DEIHL WOLFSergeant · May 9, 1968
- WILLIAM ELWOOD HANNINGSLance Corporal · June 6, 1968
- RONALD JAMES MURPHYLance Corporal · August 4, 1968
- ANDREW MARK PHILLIPSPrivate First Class · January 14, 1970
- ALBERT MAURICE FINNFirst Lieutenant · September 20, 1970
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.