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GEORGE RAYMOND HUNTZINGER
Private First Class · U.S. Army
July 5, 1949 – October 29, 1969
Service recordGeorge Raymond Huntzinger, of Langhorne, Pennsylvania, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on October 29, 1969, in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 16W, Line 2 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 16W · Line 2
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 198 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- July 5, 1949
- Home of record
- Langhorne, Pennsylvania (Bucks County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 29, 1969
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Ngai
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
Eight names on the Wall carry the date October 29, 1969; he was the only one lost in Quảng Ngãi Province that day. In October 1969, 600 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 198th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 13 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 16W, Line 2
- JUAN BOSCO BERUMENSpecialist Four · October 29, 1969
- JEROME GERALD HATTERPrivate First Class · October 29, 1969
- STEPHEN SHERWOOD MACVEANLieutenant · October 29, 1969
- DAVID CRAIG BRANNONSpecialist Four · October 30, 1969
From Langhorne
- HARRY JENNINGS SIMMONS JRLance Corporal · April 8, 1967
- WARREN MARTIN BEAUMONTPrivate First Class · April 12, 1968
- JOHN ELTON CANDYPrivate First Class · October 11, 1968
- LEE FULTON CLICKNERFirst Lieutenant · October 25, 1969
- RICHARD C WILLIAMSPrivate First Class · January 4, 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.