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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault.
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Dennis Arnold May.

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DENNIS ARNOLD MAY

Captain · U.S. Army

September 11, 1936 – April 29, 1966

Service record

Dennis Arnold May, of Des Moines, Iowa, served as a Captain in the U.S. Army. He died on April 29, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 29. His name is inscribed on Panel 7E, Line 10 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 7E · Line 10

Position of Panel 7E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Captain (CPT)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Unit (as recorded)
1 INF DIV
Born
September 11, 1936
Home of record
Des Moines, Iowa (Polk County)

Casualty

Date of death
April 29, 1966
Age
29
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Aircraft Crash — Passenger (MC)

Context · from the records

What was happening

33 names on the Wall carry the date April 29, 1966. In April 1966, 406 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 106 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 7E, Line 10

Same unit, same day

From Des Moines

All 89 names from Des Moines →

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.