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DELL COLEMAN ODEGARD
Corporal · U.S. Army
June 15, 1948 – January 30, 1968
Service recordDell Coleman Odegard, of Vancouver, Washington, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Army. He died on January 30, 1968, in Phuoc Long Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 35E, Line 78 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 35E · Line 78
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Corporal (CPL)
- Service
- Regular
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- June 15, 1948
- Home of record
- Vancouver, Washington (Clark County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 30, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Phuoc Long
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
99 names on the Wall carry the date January 30, 1968; two of them were lost in Phuoc Long Province. In January 1968, 1,546 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 73 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 35E, Line 78
- STEVEN CRAIG ODOMPrivate First Class · January 30, 1968
- RICHARD W PERDUESpecialist Four · January 30, 1968
- ROBERT CHARLES PETERSCorporal · January 30, 1968
- DENNIS LEE PICKARDPrivate First Class · January 30, 1968
Same unit, same day
- JEHOVAH GRAVESStaff Sergeant · Panel 35E, Line 71
From Vancouver
- ROY F HARBISONSpecialist Four · March 5, 1966
- JOHN JOSEPH NUSSBAUMERCommander · October 26, 1966
- DONALD FREDRICK THULINPrivate First Class · April 4, 1967
- HOWARD LLOYD LEROY JRLance Corporal · April 8, 1967
- ROBERT ARNOLD METTERTCorporal · May 7, 1967
- MAURICE KARL MOCKPrivate First Class · July 2, 1967
- ROBERT PAUL DEGENPrivate First Class · November 20, 1967
- HOWARD DAVID AKEHURSTLance Corporal · February 6, 1968
- PRENTIS BARNEY BOYKIN JRPrivate First Class · March 4, 1968
- STEVEN ARTHUR FRINKPrivate First Class · July 26, 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.