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DENNIS GALE OLSON
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
December 27, 1945 – October 29, 1966
Service recordDennis Gale Olson, of Yale, Iowa, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on October 29, 1966, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 11E, Line 127 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 11E · Line 127
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Assaultman (0351)
- Born
- December 27, 1945
- Home of record
- Yale, Iowa (Guthrie County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 29, 1966
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
19 names on the Wall carry the date October 29, 1966; he was the only one lost in Quảng Trị Province that day. In October 1966, 516 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 11E, Line 127
- TIMOTHY JAMES MEEKERCorporal · October 29, 1966
- RICHARD FRANK MUSTOPrivate First Class · October 29, 1966
- DANIEL BENSON NOLFFPrivate First Class · October 29, 1966
- ULISES ORTIZ-COLONPrivate First Class · October 29, 1966
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.