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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault.
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of George William Ovsak.

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GEORGE WILLIAM OVSAK

Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army

January 26, 1935 – February 22, 1967

Service record

George William Ovsak, of Fayetteville, North Carolina, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on February 22, 1967, in South Vietnam, at age 32. His name is inscribed on Panel 15E, Line 75 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 15E · Line 75

Position of Panel 15E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Sergeant First Class (SFC)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
Unit (as recorded)
5 SF GRP SPEC FORCE
Born
January 26, 1935
Home of record
Fayetteville, North Carolina (Cumberland County)

Casualty

Date of death
February 22, 1967
Age
32
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Other Accident

Context · from the records

What was happening

24 names on the Wall carry the date February 22, 1967. In February 1967, 767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 15E, Line 75

From Fayetteville

All 84 names from Fayetteville →

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.