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DALE EUGENE RAUBER
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
March 20, 1948 – February 21, 1969
Service recordDale Eugene Rauber, of Cambridge, Wisconsin, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on February 21, 1969, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 32W, Line 72 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 32W · Line 72
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. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- March 20, 1948
- Home of record
- Cambridge, Wisconsin (Multiple County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 21, 1969
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
29 names on the Wall carry the date February 21, 1969; he was the only one lost in Thừa Thiên Province that day. In February 1969, 1,304 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 44 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 32W, Line 72
- ISMAEL LAUREANO-LOPEZSpecialist Four · February 20, 1968
- JAMES WILLIAM PENDERGRASSCorporal · February 21, 1969
- PETER PAUL POLAKWarrant Officer 1 · February 21, 1969
- EDWARD DEAN POWERSPrivate First Class · February 21, 1969
From Cambridge
- STEVEN JEROME ROUMPrivate First Class · January 27, 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.