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Troopers of the 2nd Battalion, 503rd Infantry, 173rd Airborne Brigade, watch a UH-1D land, March 1970.
Troopers of the 2nd Battalion, 503rd Infantry, 173rd Airborne Brigade, watch a UH-1D land, March 1970. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Eugene Allen Aaron.

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EUGENE ALLEN AARON

Private First Class · U.S. Army

March 11, 1951 – September 7, 1970

Service record

Eugene Allen Aaron, of Tampa, Florida, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on September 7, 1970, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 7W, Line 43 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 7W · Line 43

Position of Panel 7W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Regular
Occupation
Armor Reconnaissance Specialist (11D)
Unit (as recorded)
173 AIRBORNE BDE
Born
March 11, 1951
Home of record
Tampa, Florida (Hillsborough County)

Casualty

Date of death
September 7, 1970
Age
19
Province
Binh Dinh
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Unknown

Context · from the records

What was happening

11 names on the Wall carry the date September 7, 1970; five of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In September 1970, 364 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 30 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 7W, Line 43

Same unit, same day

From Tampa

All 122 names from Tampa →

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.