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GENE LEANDER TWEHOUS
Hospitalman · U.S. Navy
January 1, 1948 – September 17, 1967
Service recordGene Leander Twehous, of Fremont, Nebraska, served as a Hospitalman in the U.S. Navy. He died on September 17, 1967, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 26E, Line 86 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 26E · Line 86
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
- Hospitalman (HN)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Hospital Corpsman (HM)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 2 BN 5 MAR 1 MARDIV
- Born
- January 1, 1948
- Home of record
- Fremont, Nebraska (Dodge County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 17, 1967
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
29 names on the Wall carry the date September 17, 1967; two of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In September 1967, 929 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 26E, Line 86
- WILFRED M PEREZSergeant First Class · September 17, 1967
- NOEL WAYNE ROBERTSPrivate First Class · September 17, 1967
- CONRAD ANTHONY STYBELFirst Lieutenant · September 17, 1967
- OMAR DAVID WITMER JRPrivate First Class · September 17, 1967
From Fremont
- LARRY WILLIAM HOLTZSpecialist Five · November 12, 1966
- KENNETH LEE STEELPrivate First Class · February 28, 1967
- JACK CHARLES PLAHNPrivate First Class · February 9, 1968
- JOHN CRAIG ROBERTSONPrivate First Class · May 23, 1968
- ROGER LEROY LANEPlatoon Sergeant · July 1, 1968
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.