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A Navy Swift boat patrols the Long Tàu River to keep the channel to Saigon open, December 1966.
A Navy Swift boat patrols the Long Tàu River to keep the channel to Saigon open, December 1966. Photo: PH1 V.H. McColley, U.S. Navy, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Allan Lombard Dunning JR.

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ALLAN LOMBARD DUNNING JR

Ensign · U.S. Navy

January 2, 1950 – October 19, 1973

Service record

Allan Lombard Dunning JR, of Stonington, Connecticut, served as an Ensign in the U.S. Navy. He died on October 19, 1973, in South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 3W, Line 33 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 3W · Line 33

Position of Panel 3W 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. Navy
Rank
Ensign (ENS)
Service
Regular
Unit (as recorded)
7 FLT
Born
January 2, 1950
Home of record
Stonington, Connecticut (New London County)

Casualty

Date of death
October 19, 1973
Age
23
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Aircraft Crash — crew

Context · from the records

What was happening

One name on the Wall carry the date October 19, 1973. In October 1973, 1 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 3W, Line 33

From Stonington

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.