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DENNIS LEE PICKARD
Private First Class · U.S. Army
May 25, 1944 – January 30, 1968
Service recordDennis Lee Pickard, of Phoenix, New York, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on January 30, 1968, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 35E, Line 78 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 35E · Line 78
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Armor Reconnaissance Specialist (11D)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 11 ARMORED CAV
- Born
- May 25, 1944
- Home of record
- Phoenix, New York (Oswego County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 30, 1968
- Age
- 23
- Province
- Binh Duong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
99 names on the Wall carry the date January 30, 1968; seven of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In January 1968, 1,546 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “11 ARMORED CAV”, his unit in the record, lost 23 of its members that month.
He died in Bình Dương Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Also on Panel 35E, Line 78
- DELL COLEMAN ODEGARDCorporal · January 30, 1968
- STEVEN CRAIG ODOMPrivate First Class · January 30, 1968
- RICHARD W PERDUESpecialist Four · January 30, 1968
- ROBERT CHARLES PETERSCorporal · January 30, 1968
From Phoenix
- CHARLES DAVID RAVERPrivate First Class · May 17, 1968
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.