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EUGENE JEHLEN MAJURE
First Lieutenant · U.S. Army
August 6, 1937 – August 18, 1966
Service recordEugene Jehlen Majure, of Pascagoula, Mississippi, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on August 18, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 29. His name is inscribed on Panel 10E, Line 17 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 10E · Line 17
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- First Lieutenant (1LT)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- August 6, 1937
- Home of record
- Pascagoula, Mississippi (Jackson County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 18, 1966
- Age
- 29
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
Eight names on the Wall carry the date August 18, 1966. In August 1966, 501 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 8 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 10E, Line 17
- DON THOMAS ELLEDGECaptain · August 18, 1966
- JUERGEN AUGUST MAYERSergeant · August 18, 1966
- LYMAN ALLISTER MCMULLENSpecialist Five · August 18, 1966
- EDWARD JAY RYKOSKEYLance Corporal · August 18, 1966
From Pascagoula
- GIOVANNINO TUMMINIASpecialist Five · March 30, 1966
- GEORGE CURTIS SIGALASLance Corporal · December 22, 1967
- JAMES ALLEN BURTONSpecialist Four · June 11, 1968
- HERMAN PAUL MAGEEPrivate First Class · July 22, 1968
- THOMAS DOUGLAS HARDYPrivate · October 22, 1968
- GEORGE DOUGLAS HOWARDPrivate First Class · October 9, 1969
- JOHN ELMORE WELLSSergeant · June 4, 1970
- HOWARD OTTO WARBINGTONStaff Sergeant · April 3, 1971
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.