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An airman lights a candle during POW/MIA recognition week at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, North Carolina.
An airman lights a candle during POW/MIA recognition week at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, North Carolina. Photo: A1C Aaron Jenne, U.S. Air Force, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of George Joe Bu Eisenberger.

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GEORGE JOE BU EISENBERGER

Sergeant · U.S. Army

March 2, 1940 – December 5, 1965

Service record

George Joe Bu Eisenberger, of Pawhuska, Oklahoma, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on December 5, 1965, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 3E, Line 126 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 3E · Line 126

Position of Panel 3E 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
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
1 INF DIV
Born
March 2, 1940
Home of record
Pawhuska, Oklahoma (Osage County)

Casualty

Date of death
December 5, 1965
Age
25
Province
Binh Duong
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Unknown
Remains
Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record

Context · from the records

What was happening

49 names on the Wall carry the date December 5, 1965; three of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In December 1965, 326 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 77 of its members that month.

His remains had not been recovered when the 2008 record was compiled. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency continues to search for Americans still missing from the war; families can find case information through dpaa.mil.

Also on Panel 3E, Line 126

Same unit, same day

From Pawhuska

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.