George John Belancin
Staff Sergeant
M CO, 3RD BN, 5TH MARINES, 1ST MARDIV, III MAF
United States Marine Corps
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
April 18, 1937 to September 03, 1968
GEORGE J BELANCIN is on the Wall at Panel W45, Line 30

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25 Aug 2002

The photo and following article is taken from The Philadelphia Daily News, special supplement entitled 'SIX HUNDRED AND THIRTY,' October 26, 1987. The special supplement was issued in conjunction with the dedication of the Philadelphia Viet Nam Memorial.

"He was a Marine through and through," said Belancin's wife, a German schoolteacher he met while stationed in Munich. Belancin had enlisted in the Marine Corps when he was 17 years old after attending South Philadelphia High School. He served in the Mediterranean, Japan, Germany, Hawaii and Cuba and in Viet Nam for 15 months in 1965 and 1966. In June 1968, the 31-year-old staff sergeant returned to Viet Nam, where he was a platoon sergeant in Company M of the 3rd Battalion, 5th Marines, 1st Marine Division. Belancin died in Quang Nam Province on September 3, 1968. Survivors included his wife and two daughters.

SEMPER FIDELIS, MARINE!

From a native Philadelphian and Marine,
Jim McIlhenney
christianamacks@earthlink.net


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