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A 5th Special Forces Group sergeant teaches Civilian Irregular Defense Group trainees, March 1967.
A 5th Special Forces Group sergeant teaches Civilian Irregular Defense Group trainees, March 1967. Photo: SP5 Robert C. Lafoon, DASPO, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Eugene Raymond Moreau.

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EUGENE RAYMOND MOREAU

Sergeant · U.S. Army

March 19, 1942 – August 27, 1966

Service record

Eugene Raymond Moreau, of Andover, Massachusetts, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on August 27, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 10E, Line 50 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 10E · Line 50

Position of Panel 10E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Sergeant (SGT)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
SPECIAL FORCES
Born
March 19, 1942
Home of record
Andover, Massachusetts (Essex County)

Casualty

Date of death
August 27, 1966
Age
24
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

15 names on the Wall carry the date August 27, 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.

Also on Panel 10E, Line 50

From Andover

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.