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EUGENE GEORGE OCONNELL
Sergeant · U.S. Army
May 13, 1944 – May 25, 1968
Service recordEugene George Oconnell, of Edgewater, New Jersey, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on May 25, 1968, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 67W, Line 2 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 67W · Line 2
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. Army
- Rank
- Sergeant (SGT)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 196 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- May 13, 1944
- Home of record
- Edgewater, New Jersey (Bergen County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 25, 1968
- Age
- 24
- Province
- Quang Tin
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
89 names on the Wall carry the date May 25, 1968; 12 of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 196th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 71 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 67W, Line 2
- RONALD CURTIS MCEUENSergeant · May 25, 1968
- JOHN JOSEPH MONAGHAN JRSecond Lieutenant · May 25, 1968
- WILLIAM JUNIOR MOORE JRPrivate First Class · May 25, 1968
- MASON NIXON JRPrivate First Class · May 25, 1968
Same unit, same day
- STEVE GOMEZSergeant · Panel 68W, Line 1
- DENNIS LEE MACKCorporal · Panel 68W, Line 6
- DENNIS LAWRENCE STIGLITZCorporal · Panel 67W, Line 5
From Edgewater
- TIMOTHY DALYSpecialist Four · February 3, 1967
- THOMAS CHARLES SCHIESSPrivate First Class · October 10, 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.