Rank: Specialist 4
Unit: B Troop, 1st Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment
MOS: 63C – General Vehicle Repairman
Awards: Bronze Star Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Vietnam Service Medal, Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal
Unit awards: Valorous Unit Award, Vietnamese Gallantry Cross with Palm device
Enlisted by: Selected Service
Date of birth: 11-Oct-1949
Hometown: Lancaster, Missouri
Marital status: Never Married
Campaign: Vietnam Conflict
Entered service: 20-May-1969
Start of tour: 12-May-1970
Incident date: 28-Jul-1970
Date of casualty: 28-Jul-1970
Age at death: 20
Cause of death: Non-hostile, died of illness/injury. Other Accident. Other accident.
George Fredrick Beeler died as a result of injuries received while a passenger on a military vehicle on a military mission when the weapon of another military vehicle accidentally discharged. He was admitted to a military medical facility and later expired. / Passenger on tank leaving night defensive position. Main gun on another tank accidentally discharged. Admitted to 24th Evacuation Hospital, Long Binh, 28 Jul 1970 at 0750 hrs and later expired.
Four Blackhorse troopers died in this incident:
SP4 George Fredrick Beeler
1LT Robert Norris Chinquina
PFC Dickie Carson Curry
PFC Timothy Allen White
Location of fatality: Bien Hoa, South Vietnam, YT 220 094
Place of interment: Arni Memorial Cemetery, Lancaster, Missouri, USA
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