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A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967.
A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967. Photo: SP5 Robert C. Lafoon, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Allen Dawan Udink.

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ALLEN DAWAN UDINK

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

January 28, 1949 – December 29, 1971

Service record

Allen Dawan Udink, of Salt Lake City, Utah, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on December 29, 1971, in South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 10W, Line 66 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 10W · Line 66

Position of Panel 10W 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. Army
Rank
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Regular
Born
January 28, 1949
Home of record
Salt Lake City, Utah (Salt Lake County)

Casualty

Date of death
December 29, 1971
Age
22
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Grenade

Context · from the records

What was happening

One name on the Wall carry the date December 29, 1971. In December 1971, 64 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 10W, Line 66

From Salt Lake City

All 123 names from Salt Lake City →

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.