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CREIGHTON ROBERT DUNN
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
March 22, 1943 – October 29, 1966
Service recordCreighton Robert Dunn, of Ventura, California, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on October 29, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 11E, Line 126 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 11E · Line 126
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Combat Engineer (12B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- March 22, 1943
- Home of record
- Ventura, California (Ventura County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 29, 1966
- Age
- 23
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
19 names on the Wall carry the date October 29, 1966. In October 1966, 516 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 13 of its members that month.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 11E, Line 126
- KEMPER SWANSON BILLINGSPetty Officer First Class · October 29, 1966
- PHILLIP RODNEY COLEMANPrivate First Class · October 29, 1966
- RAYMOND DOSSSpecialist Four · October 29, 1966
- WILLIAM GRANVILLE MANSFIELDSpecialist Four · October 29, 1966
From Ventura
- JAMES CLETUS DYESeaman Recruit · May 29, 1964
- MICHAEL PERRY MORITZSpecialist Five · June 16, 1965
- ROBERT LOUIS PADILLASergeant · May 17, 1966
- DONALD EARL GOREPrivate First Class · June 26, 1966
- JOHN EDWARD WIDENERPrivate First Class · December 11, 1966
- KENNETH CHARLES APPLEGATESpecialist Four · April 30, 1967
- FRANK ROSS ALLENDER JRLance Corporal · July 3, 1967
- SIEGFRIED KOFLERSergeant · July 10, 1967
- DONALD MELVIN SEWELLColonel · November 9, 1967
- MICHAEL WAYNE HASKINSHospitalman · February 1, 1968
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.