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DENIS LAVERN SIMONE
Petty Officer Second Class · U.S. Navy
May 2, 1942 – October 23, 1968
Service recordDenis Lavern Simone, of Hawthorne, New Jersey, served as a Petty Officer Second Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on October 23, 1968, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 26. His name is inscribed on Panel 40W, Line 26 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 40W · Line 26
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. Navy
- Rank
- Petty Officer Second Class (PO2)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Hospital Corpsman (HM)
- Born
- May 2, 1942
- Home of record
- Hawthorne, New Jersey (Passaic County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 23, 1968
- Age
- 26
- Province
- Quang Tin
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
20 names on the Wall carry the date October 23, 1968; two of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In October 1968, 821 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 40W, Line 26
- DAVID RIELLYPrivate First Class · October 23, 1968
- JOHN ROBERT SHINERPrivate First Class · October 23, 1968
- EVERETTE ROLAND BAILEYCorporal · October 24, 1968
- JAMES THOMAS BLANKENSHIPFirst Lieutenant · October 24, 1968
From Hawthorne
- WILLIAM GEORGE DUTCHESLance Corporal · June 14, 1966
- RAYMOND ALLAN RENZSpecialist Four · June 2, 1967
- RICHARD J ROUGHGARDENFirst Lieutenant · September 14, 1969
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.