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A Navy Swift boat patrols the Long Tàu River to keep the channel to Saigon open, December 1966.
A Navy Swift boat patrols the Long Tàu River to keep the channel to Saigon open, December 1966. Photo: PH1 V.H. McColley, U.S. Navy, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of George Robert Levesque.

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GEORGE ROBERT LEVESQUE

Chief Petty Officer · U.S. Navy

December 15, 1938 – March 13, 1969

Service record

George Robert Levesque, of Quincy, Massachusetts, served as a Chief Petty Officer in the U.S. Navy. He died on March 13, 1969, in Bien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 30. His name is inscribed on Panel 29W, Line 30 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 29W · Line 30

Position of Panel 29W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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. Navy
Rank
Chief Petty Officer (CPO)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Radioman (RM)
Born
December 15, 1938
Home of record
Quincy, Massachusetts (Norfolk County)

Casualty

Date of death
March 13, 1969
Age
30
Province
Bien Hoa
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Vehicle Crash (MC)

Context · from the records

What was happening

37 names on the Wall carry the date March 13, 1969; two of them were lost in Bien Hoa Province. In March 1969, 1,553 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 29W, Line 30

From Quincy

All 27 names from Quincy →

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.