Rank: Staff Sergeant
Unit: D Company, 1st Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment
MOS: 11E – Armor Crewman
Awards: Bronze Star Medal, Purple Heart Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Vietnam Service Medal, Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal
Badges: Combat Infantryman Badge
Unit awards: Vietnamese Gallantry Cross with Palm device
Enlisted by: Regular
Date of birth: 30-Aug-1935
Hometown: Waynesville, Ohio
Marital status: Married to Connie S. Arnold, one son, one daughter
Campaign: Vietnam Conflict
Entered service: 20-Jan-1955
Start of tour: 20-Aug-1966
Incident date: 1-Mar-1967
Date of casualty: 1-Mar-1967
Age at death: 31
Cause of death: Hostile, Died. Unknown. Misadventure.
George Dale Arnold was a passenger on a tank during combat operation when the tank hit a tree causing the tree to strike him.
Location of fatality: Tay Ninh, South Vietnam
Place of interment: Miami Valley Memory Gardens, Springboro, Ohio, USA
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