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TONY LEE ONEAL
Corporal · U.S. Army
October 21, 1948 – October 9, 1969
Service recordTony Lee Oneal, of Gay, Georgia, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Army. He died on October 9, 1969, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 17W, Line 58 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 17W · Line 58
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
- Corporal (CPL)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- October 21, 1948
- Home of record
- Gay, Georgia (Meriwether County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 9, 1969
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Binh Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
39 names on the Wall carry the date October 9, 1969; two of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In October 1969, 600 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 17 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 17W, Line 58
- WILLIAM HENRY MORRIS JRCaptain · October 9, 1969
- GREG BRADFORD SCOTTSpecialist Five · October 9, 1969
- JAMES CURTIS SHIELDSPrivate First Class · October 9, 1969
- RICHARD ALAN SMITH SRSpecialist Four · October 9, 1969
Same unit, same day
- JAMES HENRY GRAHAMSergeant · Panel 17W, Line 55
From Gay
- DONALD JEROME RICESpecialist Four · January 23, 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.