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Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966.
Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966. Photo: SP5 Charles V. Hoover, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Mark W Eveland.

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MARK W EVELAND

Chief Warrant Officer 2 · U.S. Army

July 17, 1947 – August 16, 1969

Service record

Mark W Eveland, of Sedro Woolley, Washington, served as a Chief Warrant Officer 2 in the U.S. Army. He died on August 16, 1969, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 19W, Line 49 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 19W · Line 49

Position of Panel 19W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Chief Warrant Officer 2 (CW2)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Occupation
Attack Helicopter Pilot (100E)
Unit (as recorded)
1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
Born
July 17, 1947
Home of record
Sedro Woolley, Washington (Skagit County)

Casualty

Date of death
August 16, 1969
Age
22
Province
Tay Ninh
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Helicopter Crash — crew

Context · from the records

What was happening

21 names on the Wall carry the date August 16, 1969; three of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In August 1969, 962 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 99 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 19W, Line 49

Same unit, same day

From Sedro Woolley

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.