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DENNIS JOHN KROMREY
Private First Class · U.S. Army
June 23, 1946 – February 26, 1968
Service recordDennis John Kromrey, of Osceola, Wisconsin, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on February 26, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 41E, Line 39 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 41E · Line 39
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- June 23, 1946
- Home of record
- Osceola, Wisconsin (Polk County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 26, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
63 names on the Wall carry the date February 26, 1968; 11 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 144 of its members that month.
He died in Quảng Trị Province while the siege of Khe Sanh was under way. From 21 January 1968, North Vietnamese divisions besieged the Marine combat base at Khe Sanh and its hill outposts near the Laotian border for 77 days, while U.S. aircraft dropped some 100,000 tons of bombs around it. Operation Pegasus reached the base on 8 April. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Read the history
Also on Panel 41E, Line 39
- WILLIE LEE JAMESSpecialist Four · February 26, 1968
- ROBERT ALLEN JANSSergeant · February 26, 1968
- GARY KENNETH LANNOMPrivate First Class · February 26, 1968
- ANTHONY LAROCCOPrivate First Class · February 26, 1968
Same unit, same day
- EUGENE MEYERS MOPPERTSecond Lieutenant · Panel 41E, Line 35
- ROBERT BLANCHARD HEDGESpecialist Five · Panel 41E, Line 38
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.