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DALLAS C SHELTON JR
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
May 13, 1948 – June 20, 1969
Service recordDallas C Shelton JR, of Lewisville, North Carolina, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on June 20, 1969, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 22W, Line 101 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 22W · Line 101
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
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 INF DIV
- Born
- May 13, 1948
- Home of record
- Lewisville, North Carolina (Forsyth County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 20, 1969
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Binh Duong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
33 names on the Wall carry the date June 20, 1969; he was the only one lost in Bình Dương Province that day. In June 1969, 1,246 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 60 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 22W, Line 101
- TIMOTHY ALLEN SHOBERPrivate First Class · June 20, 1969
- FLOYD LESTER STEWARDSpecialist Four · June 20, 1969
- JOE ALTON WADLEYSpecialist Four · June 20, 1969
- THOMAS RALPH WILLIAMSSpecialist Four · June 20, 1969
Same unit, same day
- BUFFARD CLIFTON HARRISONSergeant First Class · Panel 22W, Line 97
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.