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SAMUEL RUSSELL MCGEE III
Petty Officer Third Class · U.S. Navy
November 27, 1944 – September 6, 1967
Service recordSamuel Russell McGee III, of Atlanta, Georgia, served as a Petty Officer Third Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on September 6, 1967, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 26E, Line 14 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 26E · Line 14
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. Navy
- Rank
- Petty Officer Third Class (PO3)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Hospital Corpsman (HM)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 BN 1 MAR 1 MARDIV
- Born
- November 27, 1944
- Home of record
- Atlanta, Georgia (Fulton County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 6, 1967
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
80 names on the Wall carry the date September 6, 1967; eight of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In September 1967, 929 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “1 BN 1 MAR 1 MARDIV”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 26E, Line 14
- ROBERT STEVEN MCBETHLance Corporal · September 6, 1967
- LOREN LEE MORFORDSpecialist Four · September 6, 1967
- GEORGE ALFRED NASH JRLance Corporal · September 6, 1967
- SAMUEL ARTHUR OATES JRPrivate First Class · September 6, 1967
Same unit, same day
- RONALD RICHARD REINKEPetty Officer Third Class · Panel 26E, Line 16
From Atlanta
- DAVID NIPPERLance Corporal · November 21, 1964
- JAMES ANTHONY COYAirman First Class · June 11, 1965
- JAMES THARPE BROWN JRPrivate First Class · June 25, 1965
- WESLIE DAVID MEWBORNPetty Officer First Class · September 8, 1964
- DOUGLAS HORACE LEACHSpecialist Four · November 15, 1965
- RONNIE THOMAS MATHISSergeant · November 17, 1965
- GEORGE S MCHELLONSpecialist Four · November 17, 1965
- JAMES CARL WISE JRMajor · December 23, 1965
- CLIFFORD THOMAS JOHNSONPrivate · January 29, 1966
- HARVEY LEWIS BOWEN JRPrivate First Class · February 24, 1966
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.