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GEORGE GLEN HEATHERLY
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
April 13, 1947 – May 14, 1969
Service recordGeorge Glen Heatherly, of La Follette, Tennessee, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on May 14, 1969, in Pleiku Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 24W, Line 6 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 24W · Line 6
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
- Regular
- Occupation
- Combat Engineer (12B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 4 INF DIV
- Born
- April 13, 1947
- Home of record
- La Follette, Tennessee (Campbell County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 14, 1969
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Pleiku
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
69 names on the Wall carry the date May 14, 1969; four of them were lost in Pleiku Province. In May 1969, 1,456 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 4th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 76 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 24W, Line 6
- WILLIAM ROBERT HALECorporal · May 14, 1969
- CURTIS RAY HARRISSpecialist Four · May 14, 1969
- PHILLIP HERNANDEZSpecialist Four · May 14, 1969
- ROBERT M HIGGINBOTHAMSpecialist Four · May 14, 1969
Same unit, same day
- JAMES CLAIRE KOPSENGStaff Sergeant · Panel 24W, Line 7
- DAVID BRENNAN SCHACHNERSpecialist Four · Panel 24W, Line 11
From La Follette
- BILL BROOKS LONGCorporal · January 29, 1970
- ROBERT JOSEPH HUDDLESTONSergeant · May 12, 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.