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GEORGE MCCLELLAND
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Marine Corps
August 12, 1942 – February 25, 1968
Service recordGeorge McClelland, of Passaic, New Jersey, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on February 25, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 41E, Line 25 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 41E · Line 25
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
- Staff Sergeant (SSGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantry Unit Leader (0369)
- Born
- August 12, 1942
- Home of record
- Passaic, New Jersey (Passaic County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 25, 1968
- Age
- 25
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
96 names on the Wall carry the date February 25, 1968; 32 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
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 41E, Line 25
- CHARLES THOMAS MARTINPrivate First Class · February 25, 1968
- RICHARD BYERS MCDANIELPrivate First Class · February 25, 1968
- KIM ELMER MEADSPrivate First Class · February 25, 1968
- LLOYD WHITFIELD MOOREHospitalman · February 25, 1968
From Passaic
- EDWARD JOSEPH PAULSpecialist Four · April 6, 1967
- ALBERT C LAWSONLance Corporal · September 7, 1967
- FRANCISCO HERMAN GONZALEZCorporal · October 8, 1967
- PATRICK M R BIERLEINPrivate First Class · April 12, 1968
- CARMINE NOVEMBRECorporal · April 25, 1968
- PAUL P ZYLKOPrivate First Class · June 30, 1968
- JOSE LIUS LOPEZPrivate First Class · January 6, 1969
- PETER JOHN MCCALLUM JRCorporal · March 30, 1969
- STEWART SAMUEL BURRPrivate First Class · April 23, 1969
- FRANCO DIANIPrivate First Class · September 20, 1970
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.