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DALE ALLEN LASH
Petty Officer Third Class · U.S. Navy
February 11, 1943 – October 12, 1967
Service recordDale Allen Lash, of Franklin, Illinois, served as a Petty Officer Third Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on October 12, 1967, in South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 27E, Line 92 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 27E · Line 92
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
- Petty Officer Third Class (PO3)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Aviation Ordnanceman (AO)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 7 FLT
- Born
- February 11, 1943
- Home of record
- Franklin, Illinois (Morgan County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 12, 1967
- Age
- 24
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
29 names on the Wall carry the date October 12, 1967. In October 1967, 906 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “7 FLT”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 27E, Line 92
- DAVID JOHN UCKERLance Corporal · October 11, 1967
- JERRY DANIEL VARNERLance Corporal · October 11, 1967
- ABRAM JOSEPH WELKERSecond Lieutenant · October 11, 1967
- SALVADOR BAZULTOSergeant · October 12, 1967
- WILLIAM STANTON BLESSINGPrivate First Class · October 12, 1967
From Franklin
- RONALD WALTER GULLEYSpecialist Four · October 8, 1965
- ROBERT LEE DODSWORTHPetty Officer Third Class · April 13, 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.