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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Dale Raymond Lindberg.

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DALE RAYMOND LINDBERG

Sergeant · U.S. Army

February 13, 1947 – October 20, 1967

Service record

Dale Raymond Lindberg, of Brush Prairie, Washington, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on October 20, 1967, in Long An Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 28E, Line 44 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 28E · Line 44

Position of Panel 28E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Sergeant (SGT)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
Unit (as recorded)
199 LIGHT INF BDE
Born
February 13, 1947
Home of record
Brush Prairie, Washington (Clark County)

Casualty

Date of death
October 20, 1967
Age
20
Province
Long An
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Unknown

Context · from the records

What was happening

13 names on the Wall carry the date October 20, 1967; six of them were lost in Long An Province. In October 1967, 906 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 199th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 19 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 28E, Line 44

Same unit, same day

From Brush Prairie

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.