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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of George Sherman Goode.

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GEORGE SHERMAN GOODE

Specialist Five · U.S. Army

February 8, 1949 – September 10, 1969

Service record

George Sherman Goode, of Bedford, Indiana, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on September 10, 1969, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 18W, Line 64 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 18W · Line 64

Position of Panel 18W 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. Army
Rank
Specialist Five (SP5)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Food Service Specialist (94B)
Born
February 8, 1949
Home of record
Bedford, Indiana (Lawrence County)

Casualty

Date of death
September 10, 1969
Age
20
Province
Binh Duong
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Died of other causes

Context · from the records

What was happening

15 names on the Wall carry the date September 10, 1969; four of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In September 1969, 664 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 18W, Line 64

From Bedford

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.