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Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969.
Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969. Photo: U.S. Marine Corps, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Eugene Bruce Rhoades.

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EUGENE BRUCE RHOADES

Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps

February 23, 1946 – November 16, 1966

Service record

Eugene Bruce Rhoades, of Portland, Oregon, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on November 16, 1966, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 12E, Line 81 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 12E · Line 81

Position of Panel 12E 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. Marine Corps
Rank
Corporal (CPL)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Combat Engineer (1371)
Born
February 23, 1946
Home of record
Portland, Oregon (Multnomah County)

Casualty

Date of death
November 16, 1966
Age
20
Province
Quang Nam
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Drowning

Context · from the records

What was happening

21 names on the Wall carry the date November 16, 1966; five of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In November 1966, 641 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 12E, Line 81

From Portland

All 183 names from Portland →

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.