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DENNIS ODELL HARGROVE
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
January 23, 1948 – September 24, 1987
Service recordDennis Odell Hargrove, of Burns, Tennessee, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on September 24, 1987, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 39. His name is inscribed on Panel 12W, Line 114 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 12W · Line 114
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Unit (as recorded)
- C 2/12 I DIV APO 96490
- Born
- January 23, 1948
- Home of record
- Burns, Tennessee (Dickson County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 24, 1987
- Age
- 39
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Gunshot
Context · from the records
What was happening
One name on the Wall carry the date September 24, 1987; he was the only one lost in Tây Ninh Province that day. In September 1987, 1 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 12W, Line 114
- LARRY COLEMAN KNIGHTLieutenant · April 9, 1970
- PAUL ALBERT LECRONELance Corporal · April 9, 1970
- JAMES DOYLE MACEStaff Sergeant · April 9, 1970
- JOHN BELK MULLISSergeant First Class · April 9, 1970
- LEROY NELSONCorporal · April 9, 1970
From Burns
- WILLIAM LUNN MARLIN JRSpecialist Four · January 24, 1968
- BENJAMIN S UNDERHILLSpecialist Four · February 15, 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; panel and line confirmed against the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund’s Wall of Faces because the federal record was incomplete. This page presents the official record and its historical context; no biography has been written for him yet. See something wrong? Report a correction.