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GEOVEL LOPEZ-GARCIA
Corporal · U.S. Army
December 31, 1947 – February 12, 1968
Service recordGeovel Lopez-Garcia, of New York, New York, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Army. He died on February 12, 1968, in Quang Duc Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 39E, Line 8 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 39E · Line 8
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
- Corporal (CPL)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Heavy Anti-Armor Weapons Infantryman (11H)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- December 31, 1947
- Home of record
- New York, New York (Kings County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 12, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Duc
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
73 names on the Wall carry the date February 12, 1968; ten of them were lost in Quang Duc Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 24 of its members that month.
He died in Quang Duc 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.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 39E, Line 8
- FREDERICK GEORGE LOPEZSpecialist Four · February 12, 1968
- DONNIE JOE MARLARSergeant · February 12, 1968
- ROBERT WALTER MAYSpecialist Four · February 12, 1968
- LESTER EUGENE MAYNARDPrivate First Class · February 12, 1968
Same unit, same day
- JAMES LEE COKERPrivate First Class · Panel 39E, Line 3
- ELVESTER HESTER JRPrivate First Class · Panel 39E, Line 6
- BOBBY COLLINS SUTHERLANDSpecialist Four · Panel 39E, Line 13
- JAMES PAUL VOJIRPrivate First Class · Panel 39E, Line 14
- RICHARD EDWARD WAGNERSergeant · Panel 39E, Line 15
From New York
- WALTER R MCCARTHY JRCaptain · June 16, 1962
- JOHN HOWARD MCCLEANCaptain · August 16, 1963
- DONALD ALLAN MOLLICONEFirst Lieutenant · December 20, 1963
- VINCENT JOSEPH HICKMANCaptain · January 14, 1964
- MARTIN STOCKFEDERPrivate First Class · July 15, 1964
- ROBERT GEORGE ARMSTRONGFirst Lieutenant · October 24, 1964
- DOMINICK SANSONESergeant First Class · December 10, 1964
- DONALD GILBERT COOKColonel · December 31, 1964
- TERENCE MEREDITH MURPHYLieutenant (junior grade) · April 9, 1965
- ROBERT CARL WISTRANDColonel · May 9, 1965
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.