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JOHNNY NEIL EUTSLER
First Lieutenant · U.S. Army
October 7, 1946 – July 15, 1969
Service recordJohnny Neil Eutsler, of Anderson, Indiana, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on July 15, 1969, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 21W, Line 124 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 21W · Line 124
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. Army
- Rank
- First Lieutenant (1LT)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Infantry Unit Commander (1542)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- October 7, 1946
- Home of record
- Anderson, Indiana (Madison County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- July 15, 1969
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
34 names on the Wall carry the date July 15, 1969; five of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In July 1969, 834 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 101 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 21W, Line 124
- DAVID HAMILTON DUNNSpecialist Five · July 15, 1969
- LUCAS RODRIQUEZ ENRIQUEZPrivate First Class · July 15, 1969
- WILLIAM F ERICSON IIFirst Lieutenant · July 15, 1969
- HAMPTON A ETHERIDGE IIICaptain · July 15, 1969
Same unit, same day
- THOMAS EUGENE HEMPELSpecialist Four · Panel 21W, Line 125
- KENNETH JOHN MEULEBROECKCorporal · Panel 20W, Line 1
- ROBERT HAROLD WOODSergeant · Panel 20W, Line 4
From Anderson
- ROY ELDON FREEMAN JRPrivate First Class · May 9, 1966
- TERRY PETE REDICLance Corporal · June 16, 1966
- DAVID GEORGE HUTCHINGSSpecialist Four · June 20, 1966
- TOMMIE JOE CAMPBELLPrivate First Class · July 3, 1966
- CARL T FUNKHOUSERSpecialist Four · August 16, 1966
- JERRY ROBERT BLOOMERSpecialist Four · September 12, 1966
- LAWRENCE EUGENE FOWLERPrivate First Class · November 6, 1966
- DWIGHT LEROY BASEYSpecialist Four · November 19, 1966
- CHESTER RAYMOND PAVEYGunnery Sergeant · March 25, 1967
- DANIEL LOUIS ALBERTSSpecialist Four · March 31, 1967
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.