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DENNIS EITEL
Sergeant · U.S. Army
May 9, 1948 – July 20, 1969
Service recordDennis Eitel, of Phillips, Wisconsin, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on July 20, 1969, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 20W, Line 24 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 20W · Line 24
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
- Sergeant (SGT)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- May 9, 1948
- Home of record
- Phillips, Wisconsin (Price County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- July 20, 1969
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
16 names on the Wall carry the date July 20, 1969; five of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In July 1969, 834 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 101 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 20W, Line 24
- DUREL STEVENS WOODSCorporal · July 19, 1969
- HARRY PATRICK YINGLINGSergeant · July 19, 1969
- BENJAMIN FREEMAN BROWN JRPrivate First Class · July 20, 1969
- JAMES ROBERT COUCHSergeant First Class · July 20, 1969
Same unit, same day
- JAMES ROBERT COUCHSergeant First Class · Panel 20W, Line 24
- ALEX EZEQUIEL MARTINEZPrivate · Panel 20W, Line 25
- DAVID PAUL RUSSELLCorporal · Panel 20W, Line 26
- ROBERT RAY SANFORDPrivate First Class · Panel 20W, Line 26
- DAVID ALEXANDER SEMERAROCorporal · Panel 20W, Line 26
From Phillips
- FRANK ZYDZIK JRSpecialist Four · January 7, 1970
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.