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DAVID RUDOLPH DICKENS
First Sergeant · U.S. Army
June 26, 1929 – November 1, 1965
Service recordDavid Rudolph Dickens, of Mobile, Alabama, served as a First Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on November 1, 1965, in South Vietnam, at age 36. His name is inscribed on Panel 3E, Line 11 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 3E · Line 11
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- First Sergeant (1SG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantry Senior Sergeant (11G)
- Unit (as recorded)
- B CO 2 BN 28 INF 1 INF DIV
- Born
- June 26, 1929
- Home of record
- Mobile, Alabama (Mobile County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 1, 1965
- Age
- 36
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
18 names on the Wall carry the date November 1, 1965. In November 1965, 545 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 3E, Line 11
- JESUS ROJAS BERMUDEZPrivate First Class · November 1, 1965
- LUTHER WILLIAM BURTONSergeant · November 1, 1965
- CHARLES R DAVIS JRSpecialist Five · November 1, 1965
- THOMAS DAVID DUNCANSpecialist Four · November 1, 1965
From Mobile
- ANDREW C MITCHELL IIICaptain · April 8, 1963
- EDDIE LEE HILL JRCorporal · November 4, 1965
- SHERMAN ELDRIDGE OTISPrivate First Class · November 17, 1965
- NATHANIEL EARL CARTER IIISergeant · November 25, 1965
- ROBERT EDWARD BEXLEYPrivate First Class · January 30, 1966
- ROBERT LOUIS BEATONSergeant · February 22, 1966
- JOSEPH EMMETT LILLEYPrivate First Class · May 14, 1966
- JAMES DWIGHT NEWCOMBLance Corporal · July 17, 1966
- TIMOTHY SCOTT DAVIESLance Corporal · July 20, 1966
- ARTHUR BENJAMIN SCARBROUGHPrivate First Class · August 26, 1966
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.