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GEORGE EDWARD ONEILL
Second Lieutenant · U.S. Army
December 18, 1941 – September 28, 1966
Service recordGeorge Edward Oneill, of Leominster, Massachusetts, served as a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on September 28, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 11E, Line 26 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 11E · Line 26
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Second Lieutenant (2LT)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Field Artillery Unit Commander (1193)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- December 18, 1941
- Home of record
- Leominster, Massachusetts (Worcester County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 28, 1966
- Age
- 24
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
19 names on the Wall carry the date September 28, 1966. In September 1966, 533 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 43 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 11E, Line 26
- KENNETH ARCHIBALD KEITHPrivate First Class · September 28, 1966
- JULIO IGNACIO MARTIR-TORRESPrivate First Class · September 28, 1966
- GEORGE GERONIMO MOLINAPrivate First Class · September 28, 1966
- MIGUEL FERNANDO NAJARPrivate First Class · September 28, 1966
Same unit, same day
- THOMAS J ONTIVEROSPrivate First Class · Panel 11E, Line 27
- RALPH GARY TILLPrivate First Class · Panel 11E, Line 28
From Leominster
- FRANKLIN GEORGE HAZZARDLance Corporal · May 18, 1967
- BYRON STEVEN JOHNSONSpecialist Four · January 19, 1968
- THOMAS MACMILLANLance Corporal · March 6, 1968
- DAVID ALLEN HILLPrivate First Class · February 13, 1969
- WAYNE ROBERT DAVISSpecialist Four · August 22, 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.