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EUGENE AUSTIN LUNN
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
May 25, 1950 – August 19, 1969
Service recordEugene Austin Lunn, of Kansas City, Missouri, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on August 19, 1969, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 19W, Line 70 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 19W · Line 70
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
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- May 25, 1950
- Home of record
- Kansas City, Missouri (Multiple County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 19, 1969
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
57 names on the Wall carry the date August 19, 1969; two of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In August 1969, 962 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 70 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 19W, Line 70
- WILLIAM MICHAEL MACKAYSergeant · August 19, 1969
- WILLIAM LEO MAGERR IIICorporal · August 19, 1969
- ROSS EDWARD MANDEVILLESpecialist Five · August 19, 1969
- STEPHEN LEE MARTINOCorporal · August 19, 1969
Same unit, same day
- DENNIS FRANCIS SHINECorporal · Panel 19W, Line 73
From Kansas City
- PATRICK PEARSE MANNINGPrivate First Class · July 30, 1965
- FRANK ALLEN GIVENPrivate First Class · August 24, 1965
- MICHAEL STEVENS HARRISPrivate First Class · December 9, 1965
- LESTER A ROGERSFirst Lieutenant · February 28, 1966
- JEROME NIXONPrivate First Class · March 23, 1966
- CHARLES R LAWHONWarrant Officer 1 · May 6, 1966
- JAMES PAUL DEBRULERPrivate First Class · May 21, 1966
- DAYTON WILLIAM RAGLANDColonel · May 31, 1966
- ROBERT WILLIAM PECKPrivate First Class · July 10, 1966
- EUGENE JOLLYSpecialist Five · July 11, 1966
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.