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GEORGE L WILSON
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
December 6, 1946 – April 6, 1968
Service recordGeorge L Wilson, of Portsmouth, Virginia, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on April 6, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 48E, Line 37 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 48E · Line 37
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
- Born
- December 6, 1946
- Home of record
- Portsmouth, Virginia (Portsmouth (City) County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 6, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
79 names on the Wall carry the date April 6, 1968; 43 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 134 of its members that month.
He died in Quảng Trị Province while the siege of Khe Sanh was under way. From 21 January 1968, North Vietnamese divisions besieged the Marine combat base at Khe Sanh and its hill outposts near the Laotian border for 77 days, while U.S. aircraft dropped some 100,000 tons of bombs around it. Operation Pegasus reached the base on 8 April. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Read the history
Also on Panel 48E, Line 37
- LEE ARTHUR WATSONPrivate First Class · April 6, 1968
- RALPH CHESTER WIGHT JRMajor · April 6, 1968
- LARRY MICHAEL WOLPERTSpecialist Four · April 6, 1968
- GERALD FRANCIS YOUNGLance Corporal · April 6, 1968
Same unit, same day
- RONALD MARVIN BEECKSpecialist Four · Panel 48E, Line 23
- ROBERT JOHN BENSONPrivate First Class · Panel 48E, Line 23
- JAMES TERRELL BLALOCKPrivate First Class · Panel 48E, Line 23
- WILLIAM FRANKLIN BROWNPrivate First Class · Panel 48E, Line 24
- JACK DENNIS DOWNSPrivate First Class · Panel 48E, Line 25
- LEE SCOTT ADAMSSecond Lieutenant · Panel 48E, Line 26
- ORONZO GEMMATICorporal · Panel 48E, Line 26
- BOBBY JOE GRAVELSpecialist Four · Panel 48E, Line 26
- JOSEPH FRANK GULLUNG IIIPrivate First Class · Panel 48E, Line 27
- WILLIAM TYLER HANCOCKPrivate First Class · Panel 48E, Line 27
- ROBERT BARD KERCHNERSergeant · Panel 48E, Line 28
- CHARLES WILBURN MOODYStaff Sergeant · Panel 48E, Line 30
- MICHAEL ALLAN SNYDERPrivate First Class · Panel 48E, Line 35
- JIMMY RUSSELL SPACHPrivate First Class · Panel 48E, Line 35
- LAWRENCE ALFRED SWANGUARIMPrivate First Class · Panel 48E, Line 36
From Portsmouth
- NORMAN ELLIOTT JRSpecialist Four · February 20, 1965
- RICHARD DALE BRODAPrivate First Class · November 20, 1965
- JESSE THOMAS BAILEY JRSergeant · February 2, 1966
- THOMAS HENRY RHODESPrivate First Class · February 12, 1966
- DONALD CHANDLER PIPERPrivate First Class · February 24, 1966
- MILTON LEE VAUGHANPrivate First Class · August 27, 1966
- WALTER WILLIAMS JRSergeant · September 25, 1966
- MELVIN LEON SHERRELLSpecialist Four · December 13, 1966
- FRANK EARLE HARDYLance Corporal · May 29, 1967
- FRED ALLAN KELLEYSpecialist Four · July 10, 1967
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.