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GENE ALLEN MENEFEE
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
January 23, 1939 – October 12, 1966
Service recordGene Allen Menefee, of Birmingham, Alabama, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on October 12, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 27. His name is inscribed on Panel 11E, Line 69 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 11E · Line 69
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantry Operations And Intelligence Specialist (11F)
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- January 23, 1939
- Home of record
- Birmingham, Alabama (Jefferson County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 12, 1966
- Age
- 27
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
12 names on the Wall carry the date October 12, 1966. In October 1966, 516 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 13 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 11E, Line 69
- ALVIN GARVIE MORRISPrivate First Class · October 12, 1966
- DONALD WILLIAM ROHLEDERFirst Lieutenant · October 12, 1966
- DENNIS EUGENE SPRINGSTEENPrivate First Class · October 12, 1966
- MURRAY LYMAN BORDENMajor · October 13, 1966
From Birmingham
- SHERMAN ELLIOT WILLIAMSSpecialist Five · July 9, 1965
- CARL WILLIAM MANNPrivate First Class · September 21, 1965
- ROBERT WARREN ALLENPrivate First Class · October 3, 1965
- GENE WILLIAM WILLIAMSSpecialist Five · October 12, 1965
- JAMES J HOWARDSpecialist Five · November 1, 1965
- CLEO LOCKETTCorporal · November 8, 1965
- HAROLD JAMES BATTLEPrivate First Class · November 12, 1965
- HAROLD EUGENE WATKINSLance Corporal · November 12, 1965
- CHARLES WILLIAM STOREYStaff Sergeant · November 17, 1965
- RICHARD EARL HARPERSpecialist Four · January 12, 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.