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LOUIS J GENESEO
Captain · U.S. Army
September 18, 1936 – July 24, 1969
Service recordLouis J Geneseo, of Harrison, Maine, served as a Captain in the U.S. Army. He died on July 24, 1969, in Kien Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 32. His name is inscribed on Panel 20W, Line 39 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 20W · Line 39
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
- Captain (CPT)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- September 18, 1936
- Home of record
- Harrison, Maine (Cumberland County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- July 24, 1969
- Age
- 32
- Province
- Kien Tuong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
22 names on the Wall carry the date July 24, 1969; seven of them were lost in Kien Tuong Province. In July 1969, 834 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 15 of its members that month.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 20W, Line 39
- GREGORY CHARLES ENGELCaptain · July 24, 1969
- ROBERT LEE GLASGOWSpecialist Four · July 24, 1969
- STEVEN JAMES GRECOLance Corporal · July 24, 1969
- THEODORE E GRENSBACK JRLance Corporal · July 24, 1969
Same unit, same day
- MARTIN ROBERT BECKLieutenant Colonel · Panel 20W, Line 38
From Harrison
- RONALD GEORGE STJOHNHospitalman · September 16, 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.