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DALLAS REESE PRIDEMORE
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
April 29, 1941 – September 8, 1968
Service recordDallas Reese Pridemore, of East Liverpool, Ohio, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He was lost on September 8, 1968, in Gia Dinh Province, South Vietnam, and was later declared dead. His name is inscribed on Panel 44W, Line 1 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 44W · Line 1
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 First Class (SFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- US ARMY REP OF VIETNAM
- Born
- April 29, 1941
- Home of record
- East Liverpool, Ohio (Columbiana County)
Casualty
- Date of loss
- September 8, 1968
- Province
- Gia Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Declared Dead
- Circumstance
- Unknown
- First reported
- Captured / prisoner of war
- Remains
- Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record
Context · from the records
What was happening
35 names on the Wall carry the date September 8, 1968; he was the only one lost in Gia Dinh Province that day. In September 1968, 1,184 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “US ARMY REP OF VIETNAM”, his unit in the record, lost 3 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.
Read the history
Also on Panel 44W, Line 1
- THOMAS WALTER BARNARDMaster Sergeant · September 8, 1968
- BRUCE CALVIN CHRISTIANSpecialist Four · September 8, 1968
- RONALD BLAIR CLARKPrivate First Class · September 8, 1968
- GERALD JOSEPH CLARKSONPrivate First Class · September 8, 1968
From East Liverpool
- JOSEPH JAMES COMPA JRStaff Sergeant · June 10, 1965
- RICHARD FRANKLIN ROACHHospitalman · June 20, 1966
- TERRY LEE BARCUSPrivate First Class · September 18, 1966
- STEVEN MICHAEL HANIOTESPrivate First Class · May 17, 1967
- STEPHEN ERIC SEIFERTHPrivate First Class · April 16, 1968
- JAMES HAROLD PIGOTTCorporal · August 22, 1968
- SAMUEL CHRISTIAN HALLPrivate First Class · May 20, 1969
- DANA EDWARD MEANSPrivate First Class · August 13, 1969
- WILLIAM DENNIS GALLAWAYSpecialist Five · April 24, 1970
- ALFONZA FOSTERSpecialist Four · August 28, 1970
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.