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GEORGE WESLEY DEJARNETT
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
November 30, 1942 – February 29, 1968
Service recordGeorge Wesley Dejarnett, of Elyria, Ohio, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on February 29, 1968, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 42E, Line 3 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 42E · Line 3
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 Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- General Vehicle Repairman (63C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- November 30, 1942
- Home of record
- Elyria, Ohio (Lorain County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 29, 1968
- Age
- 25
- Province
- Binh Duong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
52 names on the Wall carry the date February 29, 1968; three of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 232 of its members that month.
He died in Bình Dương Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Also on Panel 42E, Line 3
- JOHN W COOKWarrant Officer 1 · February 29, 1968
- JOHN WILLIAM COOK JRSpecialist Four · February 29, 1968
- RORY A COVINGTONSpecialist Four · February 29, 1968
- VICTOR DICAVALLUCCISecond Lieutenant · February 29, 1968
Same unit, same day
- FREDERICK L MARTINPrivate First Class · Panel 42E, Line 7
- CEIZHAR VALE PAGCALIUAGANPrivate First Class · Panel 42E, Line 8
- LUIA RODGERSPrivate First Class · Panel 42E, Line 9
- EDGAR CLAY SPENCESergeant · Panel 42E, Line 10
From Elyria
- JAMES DAVID SMITHPrivate First Class · September 22, 1966
- JAMES CALVIN WHITMOREPrivate First Class · November 9, 1967
- MICHAEL DRENNEN MILBURNLance Corporal · February 6, 1968
- TROY TONY THREETPrivate First Class · February 10, 1968
- DONNIE STANLEY KEGGPrivate First Class · May 1, 1968
- NORMAN JONES JRPrivate First Class · June 18, 1968
- JOHN LESTER BEGANPrivate First Class · August 16, 1968
- WILLIAM EARL FOSTER JRSpecialist Four · September 12, 1968
- CALVIN KERMIT COONLance Corporal · September 18, 1968
- JOSEPH GEORGE AMBROSIOSpecialist Four · September 27, 1968
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.