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Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969.
Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969. Photo: U.S. Marine Corps, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of George Freeth Smith.

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GEORGE FREETH SMITH

Sergeant · U.S. Marine Corps

August 19, 1946 – April 28, 1967

Service record

George Freeth Smith, of Berryville, Arkansas, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on April 28, 1967, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 18E, Line 111 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 18E · Line 111

Position of Panel 18E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Marine Corps
Rank
Sergeant (SGT)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Ground Radio Repairer (2841)
Born
August 19, 1946
Home of record
Berryville, Arkansas (Carroll County)

Casualty

Date of death
April 28, 1967
Age
20
Province
Quang Tri
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Artillery/Mortar/Rocket

Context · from the records

What was happening

36 names on the Wall carry the date April 28, 1967; ten of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In April 1967, 887 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 18E, Line 111

From Berryville

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.