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Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966.
Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966. Photo: SP5 Charles V. Hoover, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of George William Casey.

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GEORGE WILLIAM CASEY

Major General · U.S. Army

March 9, 1922 – July 7, 1970

Service record

George William Casey, of Allston, Massachusetts, served as a Major General in the U.S. Army. He died on July 7, 1970, in Tuyen Duc Province, South Vietnam, at age 48. His name is inscribed on Panel 9W, Line 126 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 9W · Line 126

Position of Panel 9W 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
Major General (MG)
Service
Regular
Occupation
General Officer (0002)
Unit (as recorded)
1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
Born
March 9, 1922
Home of record
Allston, Massachusetts (Suffolk County)

Casualty

Date of death
July 7, 1970
Age
48
Province
Tuyen Duc
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Helicopter Crash — crew

Context · from the records

What was happening

20 names on the Wall carry the date July 7, 1970; seven of them were lost in Tuyen Duc Province. In July 1970, 495 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 52 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 9W, Line 126

Same unit, same day

From Allston

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.