The Wall › Panel 52E › Georgia › George Rogers Bennett
GEORGE ROGERS BENNETT
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
July 28, 1944 – April 26, 1968
Service recordGeorge Rogers Bennett, of Fitzgerald, Georgia, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on April 26, 1968, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 52E, Line 13 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 52E · Line 13
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.
Remember
Did you know him? Family members and friends are invited to share a photograph or a memory. Nothing is posted until it has been reviewed.
Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Armor Crewman (11E)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 11 ARMORED CAV
- Born
- July 28, 1944
- Home of record
- Fitzgerald, Georgia (Ben Hill County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 26, 1968
- Age
- 23
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
69 names on the Wall carry the date April 26, 1968; three of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “11 ARMORED CAV”, his unit in the record, lost 10 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 52E, Line 13
- DALLAS TYLER ADAIR JRCorporal · April 26, 1968
- ANJELO JOSEPH APRILLIANOSpecialist Six · April 26, 1968
- ELDON ALLEN BAKERSergeant · April 26, 1968
- MICHAEL JOSEPH BALITCHIKSeaman · April 26, 1968
Same unit, same day
- STEVEN CLINTON HEFFNERSpecialist Four · Panel 52E, Line 19
From Fitzgerald
- WAYNE LEE EVITTSpecialist Four · June 20, 1966
- ROBERT LEE SPIRESLance Corporal · March 5, 1967
- TOMMY JOHNSONPrivate First Class · February 24, 1969
- JAMES LARRY HARRISSpecialist Four · May 23, 1969
- WILLIAM PRESCOTT ARTHURCorporal · June 19, 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.