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GEORGE HENRY CHACE
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
October 21, 1943 – October 21, 1966
Service recordGeorge Henry Chace, of Pepperell, Massachusetts, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on October 21, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 11E, Line 93 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 11E · Line 93
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- October 21, 1943
- Home of record
- Pepperell, Massachusetts (Middlesex County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 21, 1966
- Age
- 23
- 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 21, 1966. In October 1966, 516 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 53 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 11E, Line 93
- PHILLIP MARK WILSONPrivate First Class · October 20, 1966
- RONALD GALE WOLFELieutenant · October 20, 1966
- ROBERT FREDERICK EHLERSPrivate · October 21, 1966
- JOSEPH RALPH SIMONEPrivate First Class · October 21, 1966
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.