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An airman lights a candle during POW/MIA recognition week at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, North Carolina.
An airman lights a candle during POW/MIA recognition week at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, North Carolina. Photo: A1C Aaron Jenne, U.S. Air Force, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of George Robert Weaver JR.

The Wall › Panel 12E › Pennsylvania › George Robert Weaver JR

GEORGE ROBERT WEAVER JR

Petty Officer Second Class · U.S. Navy

December 2, 1938 – November 1, 1966

Service record

George Robert Weaver JR, of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, served as a Petty Officer Second Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on November 1, 1966, in Gia Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 27. His name is inscribed on Panel 12E, Line 9 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 12E · Line 9

Position of Panel 12E 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
Petty Officer Second Class (PO2)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Engineman (EN)
Unit (as recorded)
MSB 54 COMINRON 11 DET A
Born
December 2, 1938
Home of record
Lancaster, Pennsylvania (Lancaster County)

Casualty

Date of death
November 1, 1966
Age
27
Province
Gia Dinh
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Unknown
Remains
Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record

Context · from the records

What was happening

35 names on the Wall carry the date November 1, 1966; three of them were lost in Gia Dinh Province. In November 1966, 641 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

His remains had not been recovered when the 2008 record was compiled. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency continues to search for Americans still missing from the war; families can find case information through dpaa.mil.

Also on Panel 12E, Line 9

From Lancaster

All 25 names from Lancaster →

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.