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ANDREW LEE DAWSON
Sergeant · U.S. Army
July 21, 1947 – February 4, 1968
Service recordAndrew Lee Dawson, of Chicago, Illinois, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on February 4, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 37E, Line 20 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 37E · Line 20
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Sergeant (SGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- July 21, 1947
- Home of record
- Chicago, Illinois (Cook County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 4, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
68 names on the Wall carry the date February 4, 1968; 28 of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 144 of its members that month.
He died in Thừa Thiên Province while the Battle of Huế was under way. At Huế (31 January–2 March 1968), Marines, soldiers of the 1st Cavalry and 101st Airborne divisions and South Vietnamese troops fought house to house for 26 days to retake the old imperial capital, the longest urban battle 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.
Also on Panel 37E, Line 20
- EARL THOMAS CLASSENPrivate First Class · February 4, 1968
- THOMAS JAMES CRAGHEAD JRPetty Officer Third Class · February 4, 1968
- GARY MICHAEL DIAZCorporal · February 4, 1968
- JOHNNIE LEE DOUGLASPrivate First Class · February 4, 1968
Same unit, same day
- VAL GENE ALLARDPrivate First Class · Panel 37E, Line 17
- JAMES DZIENCILOWSKISpecialist Four · Panel 37E, Line 21
- RICHARD EDWARD HARNER JRSpecialist Four · Panel 37E, Line 22
- ERNEST LINWOOD JACOBS JRCorporal · Panel 37E, Line 23
- ROY LEE WINERPrivate First Class · Panel 37E, Line 29
From Chicago
- MELVIN LESTER WATERSPrivate · February 10, 1965
- WILLIAM RALPH FUHRMANPetty Officer Third Class · April 23, 1965
- RAYMOND LEON HORNCorporal · May 1, 1965
- ARTHUR C JEPSON JRCaptain · May 16, 1965
- DONALD CLAY DEDMONStaff Sergeant · June 10, 1965
- ROGER PELIKANLance Corporal · July 17, 1965
- HARRY COHENTechnical Sergeant · July 19, 1969
- CURTIS LOCKHARTPrivate First Class · July 30, 1965
- EDWARD KOPECPrivate First Class · August 18, 1965
- JAMES LEO WHITELance Corporal · August 19, 1965
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.