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EUGENE YOUNG
Private First Class · U.S. Army
January 25, 1948 – March 7, 1968
Service recordEugene Young, of Wiggins, Mississippi, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on March 7, 1968, in Dinh Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 43E, Line 50 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 43E · Line 50
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- January 25, 1948
- Home of record
- Wiggins, Mississippi (Stone County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 7, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Dinh Tuong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
55 names on the Wall carry the date March 7, 1968; three of them were lost in Định Tường Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 101 of its members that month.
He died in Định Tường Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Also on Panel 43E, Line 50
- NATHANIEL WILLIAMS JRLance Corporal · March 7, 1968
- HOWARD DANIEL WILLISPrivate First Class · March 7, 1968
- JAN FRANKLIN WILSONCorporal · March 7, 1968
- LEWIS BRACY WILSONPrivate First Class · March 7, 1968
Same unit, same day
- FREDERICK LARRY ALLUMSCorporal · Panel 43E, Line 40
- HAROLD GEORGE BEANE JRPrivate First Class · Panel 43E, Line 40
- RICHARD DUNCAN BAHRFirst Lieutenant · Panel 43E, Line 41
- GERALD KEITH BROWNSergeant · Panel 43E, Line 41
- EDWARD RICHARD CORDEAUSergeant · Panel 43E, Line 42
- RALPH DOUGLAS DIFATESergeant · Panel 43E, Line 43
- KRAIG SEWELL HOGANSpecialist Four · Panel 43E, Line 44
- THEODORE THOMAS LEOPrivate First Class · Panel 43E, Line 46
- BEN MCCOULLOUGH JRPrivate First Class · Panel 43E, Line 47
- JAMES GARY RANDALLPrivate First Class · Panel 43E, Line 48
- DONALD WAYNE TISDALECorporal · Panel 43E, Line 49
- HARRY KENNETH VAUGHANCorporal · Panel 43E, Line 49
- LEWIS BRACY WILSONPrivate First Class · Panel 43E, Line 50
From Wiggins
- DAVID WAYNE MARTINPrivate · March 13, 1970
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.