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GEORGE WILLIAM STORZ
Sergeant · U.S. Marine Corps
June 29, 1944 – March 8, 1968
Service recordGeorge William Storz, of San Anselmo, California, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on March 8, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 43E, Line 62 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 43E · Line 62
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Sergeant (SGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Assaultman (0351)
- Born
- June 29, 1944
- Home of record
- San Anselmo, California (Marin County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 8, 1968
- Age
- 23
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
68 names on the Wall carry the date March 8, 1968; 27 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in Quảng Trị Province while the siege of Khe Sanh was under way. From 21 January 1968, North Vietnamese divisions besieged the Marine combat base at Khe Sanh and its hill outposts near the Laotian border for 77 days, while U.S. aircraft dropped some 100,000 tons of bombs around it. Operation Pegasus reached the base on 8 April. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Read the history
Also on Panel 43E, Line 62
- SONNIE STEPHENSPrivate First Class · March 8, 1968
- JOHN JOSEPH SULLIVANPrivate First Class · March 8, 1968
- ROBERT LEE TAYLOR JRCorporal · March 8, 1968
- DONALD ROBERT TITUSCorporal · March 8, 1968
From San Anselmo
- GEORGE ALFRED CHED DILLONPrivate First Class · April 14, 1968
- JOHN CHARLES SCOFIELDCorporal · July 18, 1968
- WILLIAM BRADLEY DOUCETPetty Officer Second Class · May 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.