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A Navy Swift boat patrols the Long Tàu River to keep the channel to Saigon open, December 1966.
A Navy Swift boat patrols the Long Tàu River to keep the channel to Saigon open, December 1966. Photo: PH1 V.H. McColley, U.S. Navy, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Dana Bruce Jensen.

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DANA BRUCE JENSEN

Petty Officer Third Class · U.S. Navy

May 8, 1946 – April 17, 1969

Service record

Dana Bruce Jensen, of Espanola, Washington, served as a Petty Officer Third Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on April 17, 1969, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 27W, Line 100 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 27W · Line 100

Position of Panel 27W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Navy
Rank
Petty Officer Third Class (PO3)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Engineman (EN)
Born
May 8, 1946
Home of record
Espanola, Washington (Spokane County)

Casualty

Date of death
April 17, 1969
Age
22
Province
Quang Nam
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Drowning

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35 names on the Wall carry the date April 17, 1969; nine of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In April 1969, 1,023 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

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From Espanola

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.