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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of George Grover Mitchell.

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GEORGE GROVER MITCHELL

Corporal · U.S. Army

October 31, 1950 – February 17, 1970

Service record

George Grover Mitchell, of Dallas, Texas, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Army. He died on February 17, 1970, in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 13W, Line 24 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 13W · Line 24

Position of Panel 13W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Corporal (CPL)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
AMERICAL DIV
Born
October 31, 1950
Home of record
Dallas, Texas (Dallas County)

Casualty

Date of death
February 17, 1970
Age
19
Province
Quang Ngai
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)

Context · from the records

What was happening

20 names on the Wall carry the date February 17, 1970; 11 of them were lost in Quảng Ngãi Province. In February 1970, 569 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The Americal Division, his unit in the record, lost 30 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 13W, Line 24

Same unit, same day

From Dallas

All 261 names from Dallas →

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.