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An airman lights a candle during POW/MIA recognition week at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, North Carolina.
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 Michael Ehrlich.

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DENNIS MICHAEL EHRLICH

Lieutenant (junior grade) · U.S. Navy

January 3, 1942 – January 19, 1967

Service record

Dennis Michael Ehrlich, of Pompton Plains, New Jersey, served as a Lieutenant (junior grade) in the U.S. Navy. He died on January 19, 1967, offshore, South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 14E, Line 53 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 14E · Line 53

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Service

Branch
U.S. Navy
Rank
Lieutenant (junior grade) (LTJG)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Occupation
Url Pilot (1325)
Unit (as recorded)
VF 114 USS KITTY HAWK CVA 63
Born
January 3, 1942
Home of record
Pompton Plains, New Jersey (Morris County)

Casualty

Date of death
January 19, 1967
Age
25
Province
Offshore
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Aircraft Crash — crew
Remains
Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record

Context · from the records

What was happening

14 names on the Wall carry the date January 19, 1967. In January 1967, 638 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The unit recorded as “VF 114 USS KITTY HAWK CVA 63”, his unit in the record, lost 2 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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From Pompton Plains

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.