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An airman lights a candle during POW/MIA recognition week at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, North Carolina.
An airman lights a candle during POW/MIA recognition week at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, North Carolina. Photo: A1C Aaron Jenne, U.S. Air Force, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Eugene Lacy Wheeler.

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EUGENE LACY WHEELER

Major · U.S. Marine Corps

January 30, 1937 – April 21, 1970

Service record

Eugene Lacy Wheeler, of Ashville, Ohio, served as a Major in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on April 21, 1970, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 33. His name is inscribed on Panel 11W, Line 33 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 11W · Line 33

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Service

Branch
U.S. Marine Corps
Rank
Major (MAJ)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Pilot Vmo/Ov-10 (I) (7576)
Unit (as recorded)
24 VMO 2 MAG 11 1 MAW
Born
January 30, 1937
Home of record
Ashville, Ohio (Pickaway County)

Casualty

Date of death
April 21, 1970
Age
33
Province
Quang Nam
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Aircraft Crash — crew
Remains
Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record

Context · from the records

What was happening

23 names on the Wall carry the date April 21, 1970; he was the only one lost in Quảng Nam Province that day. In April 1970, 730 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

His remains had not been recovered when the 2008 record was compiled. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency continues to search for Americans still missing from the war; families can find case information through dpaa.mil.

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From Ashville

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.