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GEORGE WENDELL LONG
Airman First Class · U.S. Air Force
September 30, 1948 – May 12, 1968
Service recordGeorge Wendell Long, of Medicine Lodge, Kansas, served as an Airman First Class in the U.S. Air Force. He died on May 12, 1968, in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 59E, Line 7 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 59E · Line 7
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. Air Force
- Rank
- Airman First Class (A1C)
- Service
- Regular
- Unit (as recorded)
- 774 TAC ALFT SQ
- Born
- September 30, 1948
- Home of record
- Medicine Lodge, Kansas (Barber County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 12, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Ngai
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Aircraft Crash — crew
Context · from the records
What was happening
97 names on the Wall carry the date May 12, 1968; eight of them were lost in Quảng Ngãi Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “774 TAC ALFT SQ”, his unit in the record, lost 4 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 59E, Line 7
- JACKIE GLEN LEISUREStaff Sergeant · May 12, 1968
- RANDALL LYNN LLOYDCorporal · May 12, 1968
- RICHARD LEE LOHSEPrivate First Class · May 12, 1968
- FRED GEORGE LOSEL JRSpecialist Four · May 12, 1968
Same unit, same day
- FRANK MONROE HEPLERStaff Sergeant · Panel 59E, Line 4
- JOHN LEE MCELROYMajor · Panel 59E, Line 9
- STEPHEN CRAIG MORELANDFirst Lieutenant · Panel 59E, Line 9
From Medicine Lodge
- JOHN MICHAEL WESTSpecialist Four · March 31, 1967
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.