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GEORGE WARREN FISCHER JR
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
February 25, 1945 – August 3, 1968
Service recordGeorge Warren Fischer JR, of Holley, New York, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on August 3, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 49W, Line 4 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 49W · Line 4
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
- Born
- February 25, 1945
- Home of record
- Holley, New York (Orleans County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 3, 1968
- Age
- 23
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
20 names on the Wall carry the date August 3, 1968; four of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In August 1968, 1,313 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 64 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 49W, Line 4
- LARRY LAVERN ELZINGACorporal · August 3, 1968
- WILLIE EARL GRANGERSergeant · August 3, 1968
- FRANK A HARAHCorporal · August 3, 1968
- STEPHEN LAWRENCE HAVASSergeant · August 3, 1968
Same unit, same day
- NATHANIEL BUGGS JRPrivate First Class · Panel 49W, Line 3
From Holley
- DAVID DUANE CASEPrivate First Class · September 16, 1965
- GARY LEE STYMUSPrivate First Class · May 25, 1967
- PAUL SCOTT MANDRACCHIALance Corporal · April 16, 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.