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DALLAS ARNOLD WEST
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
September 25, 1947 – June 12, 1968
Service recordDallas Arnold West, of Edgewater, Maryland, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on June 12, 1968, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 57W, Line 5 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 57W · Line 5
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
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- September 25, 1947
- Home of record
- Edgewater, Maryland (Anne Arundel County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 12, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Binh Duong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
37 names on the Wall carry the date June 12, 1968; two of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In June 1968, 1,257 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 74 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 57W, Line 5
- COY FOSTER STARKCorporal · June 12, 1968
- RAYMOND ROBERT VARNER JRLance Corporal · June 12, 1968
- JOHN CLARK WHEELERPrivate First Class · June 12, 1968
- MICHAEL MATTHEW WHITEPrivate First Class · June 12, 1968
Same unit, same day
- JAMES LOYD LAWRENCE JRCorporal · Panel 57W, Line 1
From Edgewater
- ROBERT LLOYD BALDWINFirst Lieutenant · March 18, 1969
- CARL ANDREW DEANCorporal · September 21, 1969
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.