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DENIS EUGENE ABBOTT
Private First Class · U.S. Army
July 15, 1943 – April 22, 1966
Service recordDenis Eugene Abbott, of Mcconnellsburg, Pennsylvania, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on April 22, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 6E, Line 129 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 6E · Line 129
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. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- July 15, 1943
- Home of record
- Mcconnellsburg, Pennsylvania (Fulton County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 22, 1966
- Age
- 22
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
Eight names on the Wall carry the date April 22, 1966. In April 1966, 406 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 61 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 6E, Line 129
- ROBERT FRANKLIN WEIMORTSLieutenant Commander · April 22, 1966
- JAMES EDWARD COOKSergeant · April 23, 1966
- FRANCISCO CORREA-MORALESPrivate First Class · April 23, 1966
- ROBERT RAYMOND DYCZKOWSKILieutenant Colonel · April 23, 1966
- BERNARD JOSEPH GOSSColonel · April 23, 1966
From Mcconnellsburg
- NEIL SCOTT KENDALLPrivate First Class · March 3, 1971
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.