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An airman lights a candle during POW/MIA recognition week at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, North Carolina. Photo: A1C Aaron Jenne, U.S. Air Force, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Dennis Keith Eads.

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DENNIS KEITH EADS

Chief Warrant Officer 3 · U.S. Army

May 4, 1947 – April 23, 1970

Service record

Dennis Keith Eads, of Prophetstown, Illinois, served as a Chief Warrant Officer 3 in the U.S. Army. He was lost on April 23, 1970, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, and was later declared dead. His name is inscribed on Panel 11W, Line 40 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 11W · Line 40

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Chief Warrant Officer 3 (CW3)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Unit (as recorded)
AMERICAL DIV
Born
May 4, 1947
Home of record
Prophetstown, Illinois (Whiteside County)

Casualty

Date of loss
April 23, 1970
Province
Quang Nam
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Declared Dead
Circumstance
Helicopter Crash — crew
First reported
Missing in action
Remains
Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record

Context · from the records

What was happening

19 names on the Wall carry the date April 23, 1970; five of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In April 1970, 730 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The Americal Division, his unit in the record, lost 17 of its members that month.

His remains had not been recovered when the 2008 record was compiled. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency continues to search for Americans still missing from the war; families can find case information through dpaa.mil.

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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.