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EUGENE UNDERWOOD
Petty Officer Second Class · U.S. Navy
July 14, 1944 – September 20, 1966
Service recordEugene Underwood, of East St Louis, Illinois, served as a Petty Officer Second Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on September 20, 1966, in Gia Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 10E, Line 126 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 10E · Line 126
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 Second Class (PO2)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Engineman (EN)
- Born
- July 14, 1944
- Home of record
- East St Louis, Illinois (St Clair County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 20, 1966
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Gia Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Drowning
Context · from the records
What was happening
17 names on the Wall carry the date September 20, 1966; he was the only one lost in Gia Dinh Province that day. In September 1966, 533 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 10E, Line 126
- GARY EDWARD ROSSERPrivate First Class · September 20, 1966
- BRYAN B STOCKWELLPrivate First Class · September 20, 1966
- GLENDON LEE AMMONColonel · September 21, 1966
- JAMES REGINALD BAUDERCaptain · September 21, 1966
From East St Louis
- MICHAEL ALLEN LYLESPrivate First Class · August 16, 1965
- MICHAEL K MATHISONPrivate First Class · November 8, 1965
- ALLIE WILLIAM CAMPBELLSpecialist Four · November 12, 1965
- CHARLES EDWARD HARVEYPrivate First Class · April 11, 1966
- FRED ALFRED BENNERSpecialist Five · April 13, 1966
- WILBUR DESMAR JACKSONStaff Sergeant · May 16, 1966
- RALPH BURTON COBBSLieutenant Commander · June 17, 1966
- LARRY MICHAEL BERRYLance Corporal · July 22, 1966
- ARBAL ROLLINS JRLance Corporal · August 28, 1966
- EARL ELESTER IRVING JRSpecialist Four · September 11, 1966
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.