Rank: Specialist 4
Unit: A Troop, 1st Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment
MOS: 11D – Armor Reconnaissance Specialist
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: Presidential Unit Citation, Valorous Unit Award, Vietnamese Gallantry Cross with Palm device
Enlisted by: Selected Service
Date of birth: 9-Mar-1945
Hometown: Baytown, Texas
Marital status: Married to Paula J. Spangler
Campaign: Vietnam Conflict
Start of tour: 29-Sep-1967
Incident date: 19-May-1968
Date of casualty: 19-May-1968
Age at death: 23
Cause of death: Hostile, died. Explosive Device. Other explosive device.
George Owen Spangler died from wounds received while passenger in military vehicle on combat operation when vehicle hit hostile booby trap.
Four Blackhorse troopers died as a result of this incident:
SP4 Donnie Biarum
SP4 Dwight Earl Hinman
PFC Stanley A. Schroeder
SP4 George Owen Spangler
Location of fatality: Hua Nghia, South Vietnam, XT 515 006
Place of interment: Earthman Memory Gardens, Baytown, Texas, USA
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