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EUGENE LAWRENCE SELF
Petty Officer Third Class · U.S. Navy
June 2, 1946 – October 18, 1966
Service recordEugene Lawrence Self, of Carteret, New Jersey, served as a Petty Officer Third Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on October 18, 1966, offshore, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 11E, Line 88 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 11E · Line 88
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. Navy
- Rank
- Petty Officer Third Class (PO3)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Quartermaster (QM)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 7 FLT
- Born
- June 2, 1946
- Home of record
- Carteret, New Jersey (Middlesex County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 18, 1966
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Offshore
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
22 names on the Wall carry the date October 18, 1966. In October 1966, 516 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “7 FLT”, his unit in the record, lost 21 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 11E, Line 88
- JOHN HENRY SOTHORON LONGCaptain · October 18, 1966
- EDWARD M MCILVAIN IIISpecialist Four · October 18, 1966
- INZAR WILLIAM RACKLEY JRLieutenant Colonel · October 18, 1966
- JOHN REGINALD SHONECKSenior Master Sergeant · October 18, 1966
From Carteret
- STEPHEN ANDREW ZUKOVPrivate First Class · July 19, 1966
- WESLEY WILLIAM WHITELance Corporal · April 2, 1968
- DONALD FRANCIS HOVANECPetty Officer Third Class · July 7, 1969
- CLIFFORD JOHN CONSTANTINOSpecialist Four · September 4, 1969
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.