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DALE EDWIN PLOTE
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
March 1, 1948 – April 9, 1967
Service recordDale Edwin Plote, of South Elgin, Illinois, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on April 9, 1967, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 18E, Line 6 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 18E · Line 6
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Born
- March 1, 1948
- Home of record
- South Elgin, Illinois (Kane County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 9, 1967
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
31 names on the Wall carry the date April 9, 1967; he was the only one lost in Thừa Thiên Province that day. In April 1967, 887 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 18E, Line 6
- DALE E MILAMSergeant · April 9, 1967
- MICHAEL ROY NELSONSpecialist Four · April 9, 1967
- GARY FREDRICK PAARZLance Corporal · April 9, 1967
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.