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EUGENE A SORENSON
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
July 22, 1948 – February 16, 1968
Service recordEugene A Sorenson, of Los Angeles, California, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on February 16, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 39E, Line 66 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 39E · Line 66
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
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
- Born
- July 22, 1948
- Home of record
- Los Angeles, California (Los Angeles County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 16, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
61 names on the Wall carry the date February 16, 1968; 27 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 168 of its members that month.
He died in Quảng Trị Province while the siege of Khe Sanh was under way. From 21 January 1968, North Vietnamese divisions besieged the Marine combat base at Khe Sanh and its hill outposts near the Laotian border for 77 days, while U.S. aircraft dropped some 100,000 tons of bombs around it. Operation Pegasus reached the base on 8 April. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Read the history
Also on Panel 39E, Line 66
- HARRY WARREN SCHNEIDERCorporal · February 16, 1968
- WAYNE THOMAS SEVERINOCorporal · February 16, 1968
- SANDY LEE SHULLLance Corporal · February 16, 1968
- JAMES FRANCIS SOSNOWSKICaptain · February 16, 1968
Same unit, same day
- CHARLES ALLEN ALVAREZWarrant Officer 1 · Panel 39E, Line 56
- ANTHONY LOUIS CAPOZZIPrivate First Class · Panel 39E, Line 57
- THOMAS HALL MORRISStaff Sergeant · Panel 39E, Line 64
- WAYNE THOMAS SEVERINOCorporal · Panel 39E, Line 66
From Los Angeles
- JAMES WILLIAM MCNALLYTechnical Sergeant · October 23, 1963
- FRANK JOHN HOLGUINPrivate First Class · March 15, 1964
- RICHARD DEAN GOSSCaptain · August 29, 1964
- JOHN LOWERY MCCOYSergeant First Class · September 26, 1964
- JAMES HENRY MCLEANMaster Sergeant · February 9, 1965
- DWIGHT GLENN FRAKESChief Petty Officer · February 24, 1965
- AARON HAROLD WESTERNPrivate First Class · June 16, 1965
- EDWARD JAMES ANDERSPrivate First Class · June 18, 1965
- MAURICE RICHARD HILLPrivate · June 29, 1965
- WILLIAM WARREN HAILLieutenant Colonel · August 2, 1965
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.