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A 57th Medical Detachment crew loads a wounded soldier aboard a UH-1D “Dustoff” helicopter.
A 57th Medical Detachment crew loads a wounded soldier aboard a UH-1D “Dustoff” helicopter. Photo: SP4 James B. Egan, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of David Allen Dixon.

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DAVID ALLEN DIXON

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

February 3, 1948 – May 15, 1967

Service record

David Allen Dixon, of Weedsport, New York, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on May 15, 1967, in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 19E, Line 126 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 19E · Line 126

Position of Panel 19E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Medical Specialist (91B)
Unit (as recorded)
101 AIRBORNE DIV
Born
February 3, 1948
Home of record
Weedsport, New York (Cayuga County)

Casualty

Date of death
May 15, 1967
Age
19
Province
Quang Ngai
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Grenade

Context · from the records

What was happening

41 names on the Wall carry the date May 15, 1967; five of them were lost in Quảng Ngãi Province. In May 1967, 1,396 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 64 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 19E, Line 126

Same unit, same day

From Weedsport

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.