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EUGENE EDWARD BONNETT
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
July 26, 1927 – December 14, 1966
Service recordEugene Edward Bonnett, of Plattsburgh, New York, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on December 14, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 39. His name is inscribed on Panel 13E, Line 42 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 13E · Line 42
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Construction Engineering Supervisor (51H)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 536 ENG DET 937 ENG GRP 18 ENG BDE
- Born
- July 26, 1927
- Home of record
- Plattsburgh, New York (Clinton County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 14, 1966
- Age
- 39
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Vehicle Crash (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
23 names on the Wall carry the date December 14, 1966. In December 1966, 533 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 13E, Line 42
- GEORGE DANIEL THEISENPrivate First Class · December 13, 1966
- SAMUEL EDWIN WATERS JRMajor · December 13, 1966
- KIM SOVEREEN BIRDCorporal · December 14, 1966
- ALBERT BRIGHAMLance Corporal · December 14, 1966
From Plattsburgh
- CARL JOSEPH LATOURSpecialist Four · June 24, 1966
- THOMAS EDWARD TOWNSLEYPrivate · January 5, 1967
- MICHAEL FRANCIS CONLEYCorporal · May 31, 1967
- ROBERT CHARLES WALLACEPrivate First Class · September 6, 1967
- WILLIAM ALBERT ASPINALLCorporal · September 13, 1967
- ROBERT VINCENT SIPELance Corporal · October 1, 1967
- ALBERT WAYNE CUDWORTHPrivate First Class · April 3, 1968
- GENE ALFRED LABOUNTYLance Corporal · May 20, 1968
- WILLIAM CLAYTON WRAYPrivate First Class · September 23, 1968
- EDWARD FREDERICK BROWN JRPrivate First Class · February 12, 1970
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.