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EUGENE CHARLES WIRE
Gunnery Sergeant · U.S. Marine Corps
June 5, 1930 – February 23, 1968
Service recordEugene Charles Wire, of Waipahu, Hawaii, served as a Gunnery Sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on February 23, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 37. His name is inscribed on Panel 41E, Line 6 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 41E · Line 6
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
- Gunnery Sergeant (GYSGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantry Unit Leader (0369)
- Born
- June 5, 1930
- Home of record
- Waipahu, Hawaii (Honolulu County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 23, 1968
- Age
- 37
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
56 names on the Wall carry the date February 23, 1968; 15 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
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 41E, Line 6
- CARLOS CRUZ AGUIRRELance Corporal · February 24, 1968
- GERALD WILLIAM ALLENPrivate First Class · February 24, 1968
- JOHN THERON BECKPrivate · February 24, 1968
- ANTON D BLOEMHARDFirst Lieutenant · February 24, 1968
From Waipahu
- TONY R ARRIAGASergeant · May 6, 1966
- ABRAHAM PANGANORANStaff Sergeant · May 12, 1967
- HENRY T ARAGONStaff Sergeant · August 23, 1967
- RODNEY SALVADOR CANTOHOSCorporal · February 13, 1968
- JOSEPH SAROCAMSergeant First Class · September 18, 1968
- ANDRES BALAIStaff Sergeant · December 16, 1968
- LARRY MELVIN ALCOSSpecialist Four · February 16, 1969
- THOMAS RICHARD ROOTSergeant · July 27, 1969
- FRANKLIN DANIEL SIBAYANSpecialist Four · July 28, 1969
- ROBERT K SPILLNERStaff Sergeant · August 18, 1969
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.