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DAIN VANDERLIN SCOTT
Lieutenant Commander · U.S. Navy
December 30, 1941 – August 21, 1967
Service recordDain Vanderlin Scott, of Gibsonia, Pennsylvania, served as a Lieutenant Commander in the U.S. Navy. He was lost on August 21, 1967, in China, and was later declared dead. His name is inscribed on Panel 25E, Line 24 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 25E · Line 24
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. Navy
- Rank
- Lieutenant Commander (LCDR)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Url Pilot (1325)
- Unit (as recorded)
- VA 196
- Born
- December 30, 1941
- Home of record
- Gibsonia, Pennsylvania (Allegheny County)
Casualty
- Date of loss
- August 21, 1967
- Country
- China
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Declared Dead
- Circumstance
- Aircraft Crash — crew
- First reported
- Missing in action
- Remains
- Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record
Context · from the records
What was happening
29 names on the Wall carry the date August 21, 1967. In August 1967, 683 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “VA 196”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
The record places this loss in China, outside South Vietnam.
His remains had not been recovered when the 2008 record was compiled. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency continues to search for Americans still missing from the war; families can find case information through dpaa.mil.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 25E, Line 24
- ROGER CHARLES LEWISPrivate First Class · August 21, 1967
- RICHARD ALAN MCCORMICKCorporal · August 21, 1967
- WILLIAM LEE MILLERSpecialist Four · August 21, 1967
- MERWIN LAMPHREY MORRILLLieutenant Colonel · August 21, 1967
Same unit, same day
- J FORREST GEORGE TREMBLEYLieutenant Commander · Panel 25E, Line 26
From Gibsonia
- NEIL EDWARD RILEYPrivate First Class · September 13, 1966
- HERBERT F WELTZ JRSpecialist Five · March 25, 1968
- CHARLES HILTON DELLINGERSeaman · August 2, 1968
- RICHARD WILLIAM BELLPetty Officer Third Class · October 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.