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BENNIE LEE DEXTER
Technical Sergeant · U.S. Air Force
July 18, 1944 – May 9, 1966
Service recordBennie Lee Dexter, of Bend, Oregon, served as a Technical Sergeant in the U.S. Air Force. He was lost on May 9, 1966, in Darlac Province, South Vietnam, and was later declared dead. His name is inscribed on Panel 7E, Line 42 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 7E · Line 42
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. Air Force
- Rank
- Technical Sergeant (TSGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Inventory Management Supervisor (64570)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 633 COS GP
- Born
- July 18, 1944
- Home of record
- Bend, Oregon (Deschutes County)
Casualty
- Date of loss
- May 9, 1966
- Province
- Darlac
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Declared Dead
- Circumstance
- Unknown
- First reported
- Captured / prisoner of war
- Remains
- Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record
Context · from the records
What was happening
Ten names on the Wall carry the date May 9, 1966; he was the only one lost in Darlac Province that day. In May 1966, 595 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
His remains had not been recovered when the 2008 record was compiled. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency continues to search for Americans still missing from the war; families can find case information through dpaa.mil.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 7E, Line 42
- JOHN EDWARD CAIL JRSpecialist Four · May 9, 1966
- AUSTIN MORRIS CORBIERELance Corporal · May 9, 1966
- ROY ELDON FREEMAN JRPrivate First Class · May 9, 1966
- DENNIS DALE KAISERCorporal · May 9, 1966
From Bend
- DON EDWARD DARNALLLance Corporal · October 22, 1966
- WILLIAM HARMON KOHOLance Corporal · March 14, 1967
- DOUGLAS DAVIS COFFMANCorporal · August 13, 1967
- WILLIAM RICHARD KLAWITTERLance Corporal · March 1, 1968
- JOHN PATRICK BROWNSecond Lieutenant · May 21, 1968
- DANIEL EUGENE SPENCER JRCorporal · November 12, 1968
- MARVIN H BROWNStaff Sergeant · February 23, 1969
- REX EARL RADERSpecialist Five · April 1, 1969
- RICHARD JERRY HORNBACKStaff Sergeant · May 17, 1969
- EDWARD MAYNARD HANSONPrivate First Class · September 13, 1969
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.