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DALLAS LANDON PADGETT
Private First Class · U.S. Army
February 4, 1947 – January 6, 1969
Service recordDallas Landon Padgett, of Bacliff, Texas, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on January 6, 1969, in Kien Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 35W, Line 44 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 35W · Line 44
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Medical Specialist (91B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- MACV ADVISORS
- Born
- February 4, 1947
- Home of record
- Bacliff, Texas (Galveston County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 6, 1969
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Kien Tuong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
22 names on the Wall carry the date January 6, 1969; he was the only one lost in Kien Tuong Province that day. In January 1969, 985 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 11 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 35W, Line 44
- JAMES FRANCIS MALLOYFirst Lieutenant · January 6, 1969
- MARVIN CLIFFORD PEDERSONSergeant · January 6, 1969
- CHARLES FRANKLIN THOMASPrivate First Class · January 6, 1969
- TERRY LEE THOMPSONSpecialist Four · January 6, 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.