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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault.
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of George Henry Jules.

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GEORGE HENRY JULES

Sergeant · U.S. Army

July 21, 1948 – May 11, 1969

Service record

George Henry Jules, of New York, New York, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on May 11, 1969, in Pleiku Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 25W, Line 50 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 25W · Line 50

Position of Panel 25W 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
Sergeant (SGT)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Unit Supply Specialist (76Y)
Unit (as recorded)
4 INF DIV
Born
July 21, 1948
Home of record
New York, New York (Kings County)

Casualty

Date of death
May 11, 1969
Age
20
Province
Pleiku
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Grenade

Context · from the records

What was happening

65 names on the Wall carry the date May 11, 1969; 15 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 25W, Line 50

Same unit, same day

From New York

All 1370 names from New York →

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.