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WARNELL EUGENE ATEN
Petty Officer Third Class · U.S. Navy
January 10, 1948 – February 19, 1969
Service recordWarnell Eugene Aten, of Beaverville, Illinois, served as a Petty Officer Third Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on February 19, 1969, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 32W, Line 57 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 32W · Line 57
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. Navy
- Rank
- Petty Officer Third Class (PO3)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Hospital Corpsman (HM)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 3 BN 9 MAR 3 MARDIV
- Born
- January 10, 1948
- Home of record
- Beaverville, Illinois (Iroquois County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 19, 1969
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
34 names on the Wall carry the date February 19, 1969; ten of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In February 1969, 1,304 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “3 BN 9 MAR 3 MARDIV”, his unit in the record, lost 9 of its members that month.
He died in Quảng Trị Province while Operation Dewey Canyon was under way. In Operation Dewey Canyon (22 January–18 March 1969) the 9th Marines struck North Vietnamese base areas in the Đa Krông and A Shau valleys, the last major Marine offensive of the war. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Read the history
Also on Panel 32W, Line 57
- THOMAS MICHAEL SKALLYCorporal · February 18, 1969
- EDWIN ARTHUR ACKERMAN JRCaptain · February 19, 1969
- THOMAS MICHAEL BLACKWELLPrivate First Class · February 19, 1969
- LARRY ALLEN BODELLWarrant Officer 1 · February 19, 1969
Same unit, same day
- E G MAYS JRLance Corporal · Panel 32W, Line 60
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.