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EUGENE WILSON
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
February 6, 1949 – June 6, 1968
Service recordEugene Wilson, of Water Valley, Mississippi, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on June 6, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 59W, Line 18 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 59W · Line 18
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Basic Infantryman (0300)
- Born
- February 6, 1949
- Home of record
- Water Valley, Mississippi (Yalobusha County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 6, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
106 names on the Wall carry the date June 6, 1968; 53 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In June 1968, 1,257 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 59W, Line 18
- GERALD DAVID SORRENTINOCorporal · June 6, 1968
- JAMES SCHENLER WOODFirst Lieutenant · June 6, 1968
- DAVID OLIVER AUENLance Corporal · June 7, 1968
- DAVID EDWIN BARBERPrivate First Class · June 7, 1968
From Water Valley
- EVERETTE EARL COFERStaff Sergeant · April 3, 1970
- JOE LYNN AVANTSpecialist Five · March 14, 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.