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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault.
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Eugene Howard Harriman.

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EUGENE HOWARD HARRIMAN

Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army

February 13, 1936 – December 23, 1967

Service record

Eugene Howard Harriman, of West Franklin, New Hampshire, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on December 23, 1967, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 31. His name is inscribed on Panel 32E, Line 51 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 32E · Line 51

Position of Panel 32E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Staff Sergeant (SSG)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Combat Engineer (12B)
Unit (as recorded)
B CO 588 ENG BN USARV
Born
February 13, 1936
Home of record
West Franklin, New Hampshire (Merrimack County)

Casualty

Date of death
December 23, 1967
Age
31
Province
Tay Ninh
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Died of Wounds
Circumstance
Explosive Device

Context · from the records

What was happening

23 names on the Wall carry the date December 23, 1967; five of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In December 1967, 937 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 32E, Line 51

From West Franklin

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.