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Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969.
Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969. Photo: U.S. Marine Corps, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Timothy Michael Oneill.

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TIMOTHY MICHAEL ONEILL

Second Lieutenant · U.S. Marine Corps

November 21, 1945 – May 25, 1969

Service record

Timothy Michael Oneill, of St Louis, Missouri, served as a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on May 25, 1969, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 24W, Line 106 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 24W · Line 106

Position of Panel 24W 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. Marine Corps
Rank
Second Lieutenant (2NDLT)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Occupation
Basic Infantry Officer (0301)
Born
November 21, 1945
Home of record
St Louis, Missouri (St Louis (City) County)

Casualty

Date of death
May 25, 1969
Age
23
Province
Quang Tri
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Died of Wounds
Circumstance
Artillery/Mortar/Rocket

Context · from the records

What was happening

44 names on the Wall carry the date May 25, 1969; 18 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In May 1969, 1,456 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 24W, Line 106

From St Louis

All 296 names from St Louis →

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.