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An airman lights a candle during POW/MIA recognition week at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, North Carolina.
An airman lights a candle during POW/MIA recognition week at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, North Carolina. Photo: A1C Aaron Jenne, U.S. Air Force, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Dallas Alan Driver.

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DALLAS ALAN DRIVER

Sergeant · U.S. Army

May 7, 1948 – October 9, 1969

Service record

Dallas Alan Driver, of Stephens City, Virginia, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He was lost on October 9, 1969, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, and was later declared dead. His name is inscribed on Panel 7W, Line 122 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 7W · Line 122

Position of Panel 7W 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
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
199 LIGHT INF BDE
Born
May 7, 1948
Home of record
Stephens City, Virginia (Frederick County)

Casualty

Date of loss
October 9, 1969
Province
Tay Ninh
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Presumed Dead
Circumstance
Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)
First reported
Missing
Remains
Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record

Context · from the records

What was happening

39 names on the Wall carry the date October 9, 1969; six of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In October 1969, 600 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 199th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 9 of its members that month.

His remains had not been recovered when the 2008 record was compiled. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency continues to search for Americans still missing from the war; families can find case information through dpaa.mil.

Also on Panel 7W, Line 122

Same unit, same day

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.