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CECIL F DIXON
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
November 13, 1938 – July 4, 1967
Service recordCecil F Dixon, of Trenton, New Jersey, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on July 4, 1967, in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, at age 28. His name is inscribed on Panel 23E, Line 1 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 23E · Line 1
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
- Specialist Five (SP5)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Construction Equipment Repairer (62B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 137 ENG CO 937 ENG GRP 18 ENG BDE
- Born
- November 13, 1938
- Home of record
- Trenton, New Jersey (Mercer County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- July 4, 1967
- Age
- 28
- Province
- Quang Ngai
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
49 names on the Wall carry the date July 4, 1967; three of them were lost in Quảng Ngãi Province. In July 1967, 1,057 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 23E, Line 1
- PHILIP CHARLES CRAIGCommander · July 4, 1967
- ANDREW CURRIEPrivate · July 4, 1967
- JOHN WILLIAM DAVISPrivate First Class · July 4, 1967
- EDWARD FRANCIS FEE JRHospitalman · July 4, 1967
From Trenton
- LEON JOSEPH KRAMERCaptain · January 31, 1963
- CARL ROBERT STEFFENPrivate First Class · December 25, 1965
- DENNIS JAMES BROPHYPrivate First Class · January 29, 1966
- JAMES EDWARD THOMPSONSergeant · February 13, 1966
- SHERMAN CHAPMAN JRSergeant First Class · June 23, 1966
- CLIFFORD RUSSELL STOUTPrivate First Class · November 21, 1966
- JOHN DONALD OSSMENPrivate First Class · February 21, 1967
- WILLIE DOWLING JRSpecialist Four · March 11, 1967
- ERWIN JOHN HAARWALDTPrivate First Class · March 20, 1967
- JOHN STEPHEN SZYMANSKIStaff Sergeant · March 23, 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.