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DALE KEITH WILSON
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
August 19, 1939 – March 8, 1968
Service recordDale Keith Wilson, of Tallassee, Alabama, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on March 8, 1968, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 28. His name is inscribed on Panel 43E, Line 63 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 43E · Line 63
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
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- General Vehicle Repairman (63C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 LOGISTIC CMD
- Born
- August 19, 1939
- Home of record
- Tallassee, Alabama (Elmore County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 8, 1968
- Age
- 28
- Province
- Binh Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Died of other causes
Context · from the records
What was happening
68 names on the Wall carry the date March 8, 1968; three of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “1 LOGISTIC CMD”, his unit in the record, lost 36 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 43E, Line 63
- DONALD WILLIAM VANFLEETPrivate First Class · March 8, 1968
- RODOLFO VILLAFRANCOSpecialist Four · March 8, 1968
- HAROLD EVERETT WALKER JRSpecialist Five · March 8, 1968
- RUSSELL LEWIS WALLACEWarrant Officer 1 · March 8, 1968
Same unit, same day
- ELVIN L ALLENPrivate First Class · Panel 43E, Line 51
- CLEMENT BRADLEY GRUBERSpecialist Four · Panel 43E, Line 54
- EDUARDO JIMENEZPrivate First Class · Panel 43E, Line 55
- WILLIAM T PUFFENBARGERPrivate First Class · Panel 43E, Line 59
- DAVID MACK REYNOLDSPrivate First Class · Panel 43E, Line 59
- MARVIN NELSON RICHARDSONSpecialist Five · Panel 43E, Line 59
- JOHN EDGAR SEVERSONSpecialist Four · Panel 43E, Line 60
- LARRY RAY REDMONSpecialist Four · Panel 43E, Line 61
- JAMES PERRY SINGLETONSergeant · Panel 43E, Line 61
- HAROLD EVERETT WALKER JRSpecialist Five · Panel 43E, Line 63
From Tallassee
- JIMMY DALE HUDSONLance Corporal · November 23, 1966
- CALVIN A MCGINTY JRSergeant · August 1, 1967
- CHARLES WILLIAM DAVISFirst Lieutenant · October 6, 1967
- RICHARD CLARKPrivate First Class · January 27, 1969
- JOSEPH WALLACE JOHNSONSergeant · April 6, 1971
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.