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DANA ROBERT CALL
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
April 8, 1945 – June 5, 1968
Service recordDana Robert Call, of East Pepperell, Massachusetts, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on June 5, 1968, in Phuoc Long Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 60W, Line 14 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 60W · Line 14
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Five (SP5)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Food Service Specialist (94B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- D CO 169 ENG BN 159 ENG GRP 20 ENG BDE
- Born
- April 8, 1945
- Home of record
- East Pepperell, Massachusetts (Middlesex County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 5, 1968
- Age
- 23
- Province
- Phuoc Long
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
53 names on the Wall carry the date June 5, 1968; he was the only one lost in Phuoc Long Province that day. In June 1968, 1,257 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 60W, Line 14
- DENNIS OWEN AKERSSpecialist Four · June 5, 1968
- JAMES JOSEPH ALLENPrivate First Class · June 5, 1968
- RODNEY ROYCE BERNARDLance Corporal · June 5, 1968
- FELIX RAMON BOCANEGRALance Corporal · June 5, 1968
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.