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GUY LAMAR MEARS JR
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
January 16, 1950 – October 17, 1970
Service recordGuy Lamar Mears JR, of Rockmart, Georgia, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on October 17, 1970, in Phu Yen Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 6W, Line 5 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 6W · Line 5
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
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Utility Helicopter Repairer (67N)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 LOGISTIC CMD
- Born
- January 16, 1950
- Home of record
- Rockmart, Georgia (Polk County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 17, 1970
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Phu Yen
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
Ten names on the Wall carry the date October 17, 1970; three of them were lost in Phu Yen Province. In October 1970, 318 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “1 LOGISTIC CMD”, his unit in the record, lost 19 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 6W, Line 5
- GARY WAYNE ENGELHARDTChief Warrant Officer 2 · October 17, 1970
- WILBERT EARL JONESSpecialist Four · October 17, 1970
- WILLIAM MAX KOTNIKSergeant · October 17, 1970
- JAMES JOSEPH QUINN IIIPrivate First Class · October 17, 1970
From Rockmart
- THOMAS LEROY FORBESMaster Sergeant · September 12, 1967
- ANTHONY ODELL STRINGERPetty Officer Third Class · March 1, 1968
- GROVER LYNN SUITCorporal · September 8, 1968
- JAMES RANDALL COPELANDCorporal · January 25, 1969
- CLARENCE EUGENE HARPER JRSpecialist Five · December 29, 1969
- HOMER VIRGIL LEEStaff Sergeant · May 31, 1970
- WAYNE LEE KENTPrivate First Class · December 5, 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.