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A Navy Swift boat patrols the Long Tàu River to keep the channel to Saigon open, December 1966.
A Navy Swift boat patrols the Long Tàu River to keep the channel to Saigon open, December 1966. Photo: PH1 V.H. McColley, U.S. Navy, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Dale Russ Berg.

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DALE RUSS BERG

Petty Officer Second Class · U.S. Navy

September 28, 1943 – September 29, 1967

Service record

Dale Russ Berg, of East Otto, New York, served as a Petty Officer Second Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on September 29, 1967, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 27E, Line 27 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 27E · Line 27

Position of Panel 27E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Navy
Rank
Petty Officer Second Class (PO2)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Equipment Operator (EO)
Unit (as recorded)
NMCB 3 3 NC BDE
Born
September 28, 1943
Home of record
East Otto, New York (Cattaraugus County)

Casualty

Date of death
September 29, 1967
Age
24
Province
Thua Thien
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Vehicle Crash (MC)

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35 names on the Wall carry the date September 29, 1967; two of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In September 1967, 929 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

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Also on Panel 27E, Line 27

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.