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ARTHUR LEE DANCY
Private First Class · U.S. Army
April 9, 1947 – January 23, 1967
Service recordArthur Lee Dancy, of Pinetops, North Carolina, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on January 23, 1967, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 14E, Line 71 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 14E · Line 71
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Medical Specialist (91B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- April 9, 1947
- Home of record
- Pinetops, North Carolina (Edgecombe County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 23, 1967
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Binh Duong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Drowning
Context · from the records
What was happening
19 names on the Wall carry the date January 23, 1967; four of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In January 1967, 638 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 79 of its members that month.
He died in Bình Dương Province while Operation Cedar Falls was under way. Operation Cedar Falls (8–26 January 1967) sent some 30,000 U.S. and South Vietnamese troops into the “Iron Triangle” northwest of Saigon to destroy Viet Cong base areas and tunnels. 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
On the Wall
Also on Panel 14E, Line 71
- DONALD GLENN PEDDICORDPetty Officer First Class · January 23, 1967
- GUINN JUNELL ROGERSCaptain · January 23, 1967
- JOHN WILLIAM VANCLAKEPrivate First Class · January 23, 1967
- MICHAEL VITACCOSpecialist Four · January 23, 1967
Same unit, same day
- MARK ANTHONY CHMIELPrivate First Class · Panel 14E, Line 69
From Pinetops
- JOHN DAVID CRISP IIICorporal · September 6, 1967
- WILLIE FARMER JRSergeant · September 29, 1967
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.