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DAHL JAMES LAPORTE
Sergeant · U.S. Marine Corps
April 21, 1940 – August 24, 1965
Service recordDahl James Laporte, of Dunkirk, New York, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on August 24, 1965, in South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 5E, Line 106 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 5E · Line 106
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Sergeant (SGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Born
- April 21, 1940
- Home of record
- Dunkirk, New York (Chautauqua County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 24, 1965
- Age
- 25
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Aircraft Crash — Passenger (MC)
- Incident
- Airplane Crash Hong Kong To Danang Vs
Context · from the records
What was happening
61 names on the Wall carry the date August 24, 1965. In August 1965, 179 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in South Vietnam while Operation Starlite was under way. Operation Starlite (18–24 August 1965), on the Van Tuong peninsula south of Chu Lai, was the first regimental-size U.S. ground battle of the war. Marines attacked the 1st Viet Cong Regiment by helicopter, amphibious landing and on foot. The record gives the date and branch of service but not the exact place.
Also on Panel 5E, Line 106
- WILBUR GLEN KIRCHOFFSergeant · March 4, 1966
- FRANZ JOSEPH KOLBECKPrivate First Class · March 4, 1966
- ROBERT BERG LABBEPrivate First Class · March 4, 1966
- JACK WAYNE LINDSEYPrivate First Class · March 4, 1966
- FRANK LOPEZ JRPrivate First Class · March 4, 1966
From Dunkirk
- HARRY LEONARD KAUS JRPrivate First Class · August 18, 1965
- CURTIS EUGENE CRAWFORDCorporal · February 28, 1967
- WILLIAM G FELLINGER JRPrivate First Class · May 18, 1967
- ROBERT L SAMUELSONSergeant · April 7, 1968
- VINCENT JOSEPH ROSSOTTOCorporal · June 27, 1968
- RONALD WILLIAM FREEMANSpecialist Four · January 2, 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.