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Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966.
Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966. Photo: SP5 Charles V. Hoover, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Dalmer Dolan Jurek.

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DALMER DOLAN JUREK

Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army

May 6, 1931 – February 23, 1966

Service record

Dalmer Dolan Jurek, of Caldwell, Texas, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on February 23, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 34. His name is inscribed on Panel 5E, Line 66 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 5E · Line 66

Position of Panel 5E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Sergeant First Class (SFC)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
Unit (as recorded)
1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
Born
May 6, 1931
Home of record
Caldwell, Texas (Burleson County)

Casualty

Date of death
February 23, 1966
Age
34
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

32 names on the Wall carry the date February 23, 1966. In February 1966, 513 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 123 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 5E, Line 66

Same unit, same day

From Caldwell

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.