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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Dennis Guy Harmon.

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DENNIS GUY HARMON

Private First Class · U.S. Army

August 26, 1944 – April 14, 1966

Service record

Dennis Guy Harmon, of Belleville, Pennsylvania, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on April 14, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 6E, Line 112 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 6E · Line 112

Position of Panel 6E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Military Police (95B)
Born
August 26, 1944
Home of record
Belleville, Pennsylvania (Mifflin County)

Casualty

Date of death
April 14, 1966
Age
21
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Died of Wounds
Circumstance
Unknown

Context · from the records

What was happening

Ten names on the Wall carry the date April 14, 1966. In April 1966, 406 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 6E, Line 112

From Belleville

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.