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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 Lee McCormick.

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DENNIS LEE MCCORMICK

Private First Class · U.S. Army

November 11, 1949 – August 19, 1968

Service record

Dennis Lee McCormick, of Waukesha, Wisconsin, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on August 19, 1968, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 47W, Line 2 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 47W · Line 2

Position of Panel 47W 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
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
25 INF DIV
Born
November 11, 1949
Home of record
Waukesha, Wisconsin (Waukesha County)

Casualty

Date of death
August 19, 1968
Age
18
Province
Tay Ninh
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

56 names on the Wall carry the date August 19, 1968; 16 of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In August 1968, 1,313 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 134 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 47W, Line 2

Same unit, same day

From Waukesha

All 14 names from Waukesha →

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.