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DEAN LAVERNE DALBERG
Private First Class · U.S. Army
September 15, 1948 – March 5, 1968
Service recordDean Laverne Dalberg, of Viola, Wisconsin, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on March 5, 1968, in Phuoc Long Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 43E, Line 5 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 43E · Line 5
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Radio Operator (05B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- MACV ADVISORS
- Born
- September 15, 1948
- Home of record
- Viola, Wisconsin (Richland County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 5, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Phuoc Long
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
48 names on the Wall carry the date March 5, 1968; ten of them were lost in Phuoc Long Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 21 of its members that month.
He died in Phuoc Long Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Also on Panel 43E, Line 5
- JUAN JOSEPH DEMARACorporal · March 5, 1968
- DAVID MARTIN DLUZAKSpecialist Four · March 5, 1968
- PABLO DURANPrivate First Class · March 5, 1968
- JUAN FLORES JRPrivate First Class · March 5, 1968
Same unit, same day
- CHARLES LUDWIGStaff Sergeant · Panel 43E, Line 9
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.