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GEORGE GREGORIO LUIS
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
May 9, 1945 – October 22, 1965
Service recordGeorge Gregorio Luis, of Pahoa, Hawaii, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on October 22, 1965, in South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 2E, Line 130 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 2E · Line 130
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
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- May 9, 1945
- Home of record
- Pahoa, Hawaii (Hawaii County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 22, 1965
- Age
- 20
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
14 names on the Wall carry the date October 22, 1965. In October 1965, 236 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 32 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 2E, Line 130
- MANUEL GONZALEZ-MALDONADAPrivate First Class · October 22, 1965
- CLIFFORD ROBERT HARRYChief Warrant Officer 3 · October 22, 1965
- CLAIRE LOWELL HAYNERFirst Lieutenant · October 22, 1965
- ROBERT LEE MANNCaptain · October 22, 1965
Same unit, same day
- MILTON LEE OLIVE IIIPrivate First Class · Panel 2E, Line 131
From Pahoa
- HAYWARD K H PELEIHOLANILance Corporal · August 23, 1969
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.