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GEORGE MICHAEL SLOAN
Private First Class · U.S. Army
January 22, 1947 – March 2, 1967
Service recordGeorge Michael Sloan, of New Castle, Indiana, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on March 2, 1967, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 16E, Line 4 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 16E · Line 4
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 4 INF DIV
- Born
- January 22, 1947
- Home of record
- New Castle, Indiana (Henry County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 2, 1967
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
27 names on the Wall carry the date March 2, 1967; two of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In March 1967, 1,091 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 4th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 145 of its members that month.
He died in Tây Ninh Province while Operation Junction City was under way. Operation Junction City (22 February–14 May 1967), in War Zone C along the Cambodian border, was the largest U.S. operation of the war to that time and included the only major American combat parachute assault of the war. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Also on Panel 16E, Line 4
- JOHN PATRICK ODONNELLPrivate First Class · March 2, 1967
- TERRY ALLEN PATTERSONPrivate First Class · March 2, 1967
- WILLIAM SHORTTLance Corporal · March 2, 1967
- HAROLD KENNETH SOUTHWICKCorporal · March 2, 1967
Same unit, same day
- TERRY ALLEN PATTERSONPrivate First Class · Panel 16E, Line 4
- RICHARD HENRY TISSIERPrivate First Class · Panel 16E, Line 5
From New Castle
- JIMMIE LEE MINCKSSergeant · October 11, 1965
- CHARLES EVERETT CRANDALLPetty Officer Third Class · January 31, 1968
- BRADFORD LEE TROUTSpecialist Four · February 6, 1968
- LARRY WAYNE DARLINGSpecialist Four · February 19, 1968
- RONALD DAVISPrivate First Class · April 10, 1968
- FREDRICK JOE SMITHCorporal · July 6, 1968
- DAVID CLAUD JASPERSpecialist Four · November 19, 1968
- TOMMY RAY EATONSpecialist Four · December 17, 1968
- THOMAS EUGENE HOLLOWAYPetty Officer Third Class · April 12, 1969
- JOHN ARTHUR KEESLINGSergeant · May 7, 1969
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.