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DEE BERGERA
Private First Class · U.S. Army
August 31, 1948 – June 15, 1971
Service recordDee Bergera, of Helper, Utah, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on June 15, 1971, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 3W, Line 76 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 3W · Line 76
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 196 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- August 31, 1948
- Home of record
- Helper, Utah (Carbon County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 15, 1971
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
Seven names on the Wall carry the date June 15, 1971; he was the only one lost in Quảng Nam Province that day. In June 1971, 181 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 196th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 6 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 3W, Line 76
- WAYNE ARTHUR GARBERSergeant First Class · June 14, 1971
- MANUEL MIRANDASpecialist Five · June 14, 1971
- ANTHONY ALOYSIUS PRICESpecialist Five · June 14, 1971
- WILLIAM THOMAS WALSH JRCorporal · June 14, 1971
From Helper
- LOUIS PAUL SPENSKOSergeant · May 13, 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.