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BURTON WARD DALKE
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
December 9, 1948 – May 6, 1969
Service recordBurton Ward Dalke, of Tonawanda, New York, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on May 6, 1969, in Dinh Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 25W, Line 11 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 25W · Line 11
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- December 9, 1948
- Home of record
- Tonawanda, New York (Erie County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 6, 1969
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Dinh Tuong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
36 names on the Wall carry the date May 6, 1969; two of them were lost in Định Tường Province. In May 1969, 1,456 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 82 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 25W, Line 11
- KENNETH LAWRENCE DULLEYSergeant First Class · May 6, 1969
- CHARLES MCDONALD FULLERPrivate First Class · May 6, 1969
- JOHN ROBERT HAGANMajor · May 6, 1969
- MICHAEL JOHN WOEHRLCorporal · May 6, 1969
Same unit, same day
- CHARLES MCDONALD FULLERPrivate First Class · Panel 25W, Line 11
- JOHN MONROE PRATTSpecialist Four · Panel 25W, Line 14
- BRIAN EDWARD SWANESpecialist Four · Panel 25W, Line 15
From Tonawanda
- KENNETH ARTHUR VARNEYPrivate First Class · May 1, 1967
- ROBERT SMEALSergeant · March 15, 1968
- RONALD FRANCIS SADLERPrivate First Class · March 24, 1968
- MARK EDWARD VANDERHEIDLance Corporal · June 28, 1968
- JAMES ANTHONY GRIFASIStaff Sergeant · March 26, 1970
- ALEX C SPENCE JRWarrant Officer 1 · June 20, 1970
- JAMES LEWIS STEINKIRCHNERSpecialist Four · February 27, 1971
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.