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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault.
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Alan Dale Helmick.

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ALAN DALE HELMICK

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

September 25, 1948 – April 14, 1970

Service record

Alan Dale Helmick, of Maidsville, West Virginia, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on April 14, 1970, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 11W, Line 3 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 11W · Line 3

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Heavy Vehicle Driver (64B)
Unit (as recorded)
C CO 169 ENG BN 159 ENG GRP 20 ENG BDE
Born
September 25, 1948
Home of record
Maidsville, West Virginia (Monongalia County)

Casualty

Date of death
April 14, 1970
Age
21
Province
Tay Ninh
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Died of other causes

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11 names on the Wall carry the date April 14, 1970; four of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In April 1970, 730 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

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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.