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Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966.
Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966. Photo: SP5 Charles V. Hoover, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Dennis Boyd Easley.

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DENNIS BOYD EASLEY

Second Lieutenant · U.S. Army

October 11, 1936 – July 20, 1966

Service record

Dennis Boyd Easley, of Arlington, Texas, served as a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on July 20, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 29. His name is inscribed on Panel 9E, Line 46 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 9E · Line 46

Position of Panel 9E 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
Second Lieutenant (2LT)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Occupation
Air Observation Pilot (1981)
Unit (as recorded)
1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
Born
October 11, 1936
Home of record
Arlington, Texas (Tarrant County)

Casualty

Date of death
July 20, 1966
Age
29
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Helicopter Crash — crew

Context · from the records

What was happening

32 names on the Wall carry the date July 20, 1966. In July 1966, 562 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 13 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 9E, Line 46

Same unit, same day

From Arlington

All 23 names from Arlington →

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.