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DALE HARLAN AMUNDSON
Private First Class · U.S. Army
July 11, 1948 – October 30, 1968
Service recordDale Harlan Amundson, of Finley, North Dakota, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on October 30, 1968, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 40W, Line 56 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 40W · Line 56
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 196 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- July 11, 1948
- Home of record
- Finley, North Dakota (Steele County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 30, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Tin
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Drowning
Context · from the records
What was happening
24 names on the Wall carry the date October 30, 1968; five of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In October 1968, 821 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 196th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 8 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 40W, Line 56
- GREGORY JOSEPH BARTKOWSKIPrivate First Class · October 30, 1968
- JOHN VERNON BERGMaster Gunnery Sergeant · October 30, 1968
- MERRITT LEWIS MURRAYCorporal · October 30, 1968
- HERBERT JOSEPH PARZYNSKISergeant First Class · October 30, 1968
Same unit, same day
- LARRY BLAINE DURSTCorporal · Panel 40W, Line 57
- JAMES VAN HOWARDCorporal · Panel 40W, Line 58
- JIM GLENN BELL JRSergeant · Panel 40W, Line 59
- KEVIN EUGENE MOLINECorporal · Panel 40W, Line 59
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.