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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 Dean Bogle.

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DENNIS DEAN BOGLE

Warrant Officer 1 · U.S. Army

December 10, 1947 – November 29, 1969

Service record

Dennis Dean Bogle, of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, served as a Warrant Officer 1 in the U.S. Army. He died on November 29, 1969, in Phuoc Long Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 15W, Line 3 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 15W · Line 3

Position of Panel 15W 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
Warrant Officer 1 (WO1)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Occupation
Utility/Observation Helicopter Pilot (100B)
Unit (as recorded)
1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
Born
December 10, 1947
Home of record
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma (Multiple County)

Casualty

Date of death
November 29, 1969
Age
21
Province
Phuoc Long
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Helicopter Crash — crew

Context · from the records

What was happening

31 names on the Wall carry the date November 29, 1969; seven of them were lost in Phuoc Long Province. In November 1969, 660 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 74 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 15W, Line 3

Same unit, same day

From Oklahoma City

All 159 names from Oklahoma City →

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.