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USS Enterprise on Yankee Station in the Gulf of Tonkin, May 1966.
USS Enterprise on Yankee Station in the Gulf of Tonkin, May 1966. Photo: U.S. Navy, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Eugene Floyd McNally.

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EUGENE FLOYD MCNALLY

Lieutenant Commander · U.S. Navy

October 28, 1937 – May 16, 1970

Service record

Eugene Floyd McNally, of Anaconda, Montana, served as a Lieutenant Commander in the U.S. Navy. He died on May 16, 1970, offshore, South Vietnam, at age 32. His name is inscribed on Panel 10W, Line 53 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 10W · Line 53

Position of Panel 10W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Navy
Rank
Lieutenant Commander (LCDR)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Url Naval Flight Officer (1320)
Unit (as recorded)
7 FLT
Born
October 28, 1937
Home of record
Anaconda, Montana (Deer Lodge County)

Casualty

Date of death
May 16, 1970
Age
32
Province
Offshore
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Aircraft Crash — crew

Context · from the records

What was happening

36 names on the Wall carry the date May 16, 1970. In May 1970, 917 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The unit recorded as “7 FLT”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 10W, Line 53

From Anaconda

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.