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DENNIS ORVILLE NELSON
Petty Officer Third Class · U.S. Navy
April 30, 1942 – March 10, 1967
Service recordDennis Orville Nelson, of Hendricks, Minnesota, served as a Petty Officer Third Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on March 10, 1967, in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 16E, Line 54 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 16E · Line 54
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. Navy
- Rank
- Petty Officer Third Class (PO3)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Hospital Corpsman (HM)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 3 ENG BN 3 MARDIV
- Born
- April 30, 1942
- Home of record
- Hendricks, Minnesota (Lincoln County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 10, 1967
- Age
- 24
- Province
- Quang Ngai
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
27 names on the Wall carry the date March 10, 1967; four of them were lost in Quảng Ngãi Province. In March 1967, 1,091 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 16E, Line 54
- LOUIS PHILLIP MERINOPrivate First Class · March 10, 1967
- CHESTER ARTHUR MYERS JRFirst Lieutenant · March 10, 1967
- ROGER WILLIAM RABEYSecond Lieutenant · March 10, 1967
- WILLIAM EARL RAGERSergeant First Class · March 10, 1967
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.