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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of George Lincoln Wilson.

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GEORGE LINCOLN WILSON

Master Sergeant · U.S. Army

August 24, 1924 – November 8, 1967

Service record

George Lincoln Wilson, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, served as a Master Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on November 8, 1967, at age 43. His name is inscribed on Panel 29E, Line 57 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 29E · Line 57

Position of Panel 29E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Master Sergeant (MSG)
Born
August 24, 1924
Home of record
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Casualty

Date of death
November 8, 1967
Age
43
Added to the Wall
2015

Context · from the records

What was happening

46 names on the Wall carry the date November 8, 1967. In November 1967, 1,133 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 29E, Line 57

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Source. This name was added to the Wall in 2015, after the 2008 Department of Defense casualty file used for most of this site was compiled. Panel, line and the details above are as listed for this name on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund’s Wall of Faces. This page presents the official record and its historical context; no biography has been written for him yet. See something wrong? Report a correction.