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DENIS DUANE MATTHEIS
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
July 20, 1946 – August 26, 1967
Service recordDenis Duane Mattheis, of Cresco, Iowa, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on August 26, 1967, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 25E, Line 48 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 25E · Line 48
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
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- July 20, 1946
- Home of record
- Cresco, Iowa (Howard County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 26, 1967
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Quang Tin
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
16 names on the Wall carry the date August 26, 1967; two of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In August 1967, 683 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 50 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 25E, Line 48
- CARY PAUL QUEENSergeant · August 26, 1967
- ROBERT CHARLES SMITHPrivate First Class · August 26, 1967
- DOUGLAS DEWEY WALLINPrivate First Class · August 26, 1967
- VLADIMIR HENRY BACIKLieutenant Colonel · August 27, 1967
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.