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USS Enterprise on Yankee Station in the Gulf of Tonkin, May 1966.
USS Enterprise on Yankee Station in the Gulf of Tonkin, May 1966. Photo: U.S. Navy, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Dale Dennis Lingle.

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DALE DENNIS LINGLE

Airman Apprentice · U.S. Navy

March 13, 1947 – March 21, 1969

Service record

Dale Dennis Lingle, of Marion, Illinois, served as an Airman Apprentice in the U.S. Navy. He died on March 21, 1969, offshore, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 29W, Line 102 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 29W · Line 102

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Service

Branch
U.S. Navy
Rank
Airman Apprentice (AA)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Airman (AN)
Born
March 13, 1947
Home of record
Marion, Illinois (Williamson County)

Casualty

Date of death
March 21, 1969
Age
22
Province
Offshore
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Illness
Circumstance
Infectious Disease

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83 names on the Wall carry the date March 21, 1969. In March 1969, 1,553 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

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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.