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GEORGE LEROY SAMUELS
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
October 28, 1947 – April 8, 1966
Service recordGeorge Leroy Samuels, of Eureka, Kansas, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on April 8, 1966, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 6E, Line 94 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 6E · Line 94
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Unit (as recorded)
- K CO 3 BN 1 MAR 1 MARDIV
- Born
- October 28, 1947
- Home of record
- Eureka, Kansas (Greenwood County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 8, 1966
- Age
- 18
- Province
- Quang Tin
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
Six names on the Wall carry the date April 8, 1966; he was the only one lost in Quảng Tín Province that day. In April 1966, 406 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “K CO 3 BN 1 MAR 1 MARDIV”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 6E, Line 94
- CHARLES MILLS SHELDONCaptain · April 8, 1966
- EDWARD HUGH TIMMONSPrivate First Class · April 8, 1966
- JEFFERSON DAVIS HALLSergeant · April 9, 1966
- THOMAS GAVIN WALSTERLieutenant (junior grade) · April 9, 1966
From Eureka
- DONALD ALLEN LEWISSergeant · August 26, 1966
- DANNY LEE MCDONALDPrivate First Class · October 30, 1966
- WILLIAM ALLEN HAWTHORNEPrivate First Class · November 20, 1967
- CHARLES CLIFFORD BAILEYPrivate First Class · June 2, 1968
- DONALD DEAN WINNSpecialist Four · January 1, 1971
- NEWELL F APPLEGATE SRSergeant Major · April 10, 1971
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.