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GEORGE PATRICK OTOOLE JR
Captain · U.S. Army
December 24, 1943 – December 12, 1967
Service recordGeorge Patrick Otoole JR, of Mankato, Minnesota, served as a Captain in the U.S. Army. He died on December 12, 1967, in Dinh Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 31E, Line 85 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 31E · Line 85
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. Army
- Rank
- Captain (CPT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantry Unit Commander (1542)
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- December 24, 1943
- Home of record
- Mankato, Minnesota (Blue Earth County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 12, 1967
- Age
- 23
- Province
- Dinh Tuong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
Ten names on the Wall carry the date December 12, 1967; he was the only one lost in Định Tường Province that day. In December 1967, 937 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 10 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 31E, Line 85
- JAMES WILLIAM POWELL JRPrivate First Class · December 12, 1967
- ROBERT ELWOOD BENNETT IIIFirst Lieutenant · December 13, 1967
- ROBERT DEWITT BERTASpecialist Four · December 13, 1967
- BRUCE HOWARD BUMGARNERPrivate First Class · December 13, 1967
From Mankato
- SAMUEL LEE REEDStaff Sergeant · July 15, 1966
- LARRY ALLEN DORINGSpecialist Four · July 10, 1967
- ERIC R KOEPPENWarrant Officer 1 · July 11, 1968
- GERALD DUANE SACKCorporal · July 30, 1968
- WILLIAM JOSEPH GAGNIERSergeant · September 11, 1968
- EDWARD LEWIS HARRISWarrant Officer 1 · March 1, 1969
- DANIEL WILLIAM LLOYDSecond Lieutenant · March 13, 1969
- THOMAS GEORGE MANDERFELDSpecialist Four · April 10, 1969
- RICHARD DANIEL WIEHRPetty Officer Second Class · January 21, 1973
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.