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EUGENE FREDERICK POELING
Private First Class · U.S. Army
February 19, 1946 – May 20, 1967
Service recordEugene Frederick Poeling, of Worden, Illinois, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on May 20, 1967, in Pleiku Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 20E, Line 66 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 20E · Line 66
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- B CO 1 BN 8 INF 4 INF DIV
- Born
- February 19, 1946
- Home of record
- Worden, Illinois (Madison County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 20, 1967
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Pleiku
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
91 names on the Wall carry the date May 20, 1967; 16 of them were lost in Pleiku Province. In May 1967, 1,396 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “B CO 1 BN 8 INF 4 INF DIV”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 20E, Line 66
- ROBERT ELGIN PAYNELance Corporal · May 20, 1967
- JOSH PETERSPrivate First Class · May 20, 1967
- CLARENCE WESLEY PILKENTONPrivate First Class · May 20, 1967
- THOMAS WYATT POORELance Corporal · May 20, 1967
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.