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A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967.
A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967. Photo: SP5 Robert C. Lafoon, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Dennis Harper JR.

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DENNIS HARPER JR

Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army

April 21, 1940 – December 11, 1966

Service record

Dennis Harper JR, of Amigo, West Virginia, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on December 11, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 26. His name is inscribed on Panel 13E, Line 33 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 13E · Line 33

Position of Panel 13E 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
Staff Sergeant (SSG)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
1 INF DIV
Born
April 21, 1940
Home of record
Amigo, West Virginia (Wyoming County)

Casualty

Date of death
December 11, 1966
Age
26
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Grenade

Context · from the records

What was happening

33 names on the Wall carry the date December 11, 1966. In December 1966, 533 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 56 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 13E, Line 33

Same unit, same day

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.