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Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966.
Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966. Photo: SP5 Charles V. Hoover, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Bobbie Jefferson Dennis.

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BOBBIE JEFFERSON DENNIS

Warrant Officer 1 · U.S. Army

November 10, 1929 – October 18, 1966

Service record

Bobbie Jefferson Dennis, of Fayetteville, North Carolina, served as a Warrant Officer 1 in the U.S. Army. He died on October 18, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 36. His name is inscribed on Panel 11E, Line 86 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 11E · Line 86

Position of Panel 11E 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
Warrant Officer 1 (WO1)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Unit (as recorded)
1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
Born
November 10, 1929
Home of record
Fayetteville, North Carolina (Cumberland County)

Casualty

Date of death
October 18, 1966
Age
36
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Vehicle Crash (MC)

Context · from the records

What was happening

22 names on the Wall carry the date October 18, 1966. In October 1966, 516 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 55 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 11E, Line 86

From Fayetteville

All 84 names from Fayetteville →

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.