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DENNIS R BALFOUR
Private First Class · U.S. Army
June 5, 1943 – September 10, 1966
Service recordDennis R Balfour, of Virginia Beach, Virginia, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on September 10, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 10E, Line 82 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 10E · Line 82
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 INF DIV
- Born
- June 5, 1943
- Home of record
- Virginia Beach, Virginia (Virginia Beach (City) County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 10, 1966
- Age
- 23
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
18 names on the Wall carry the date September 10, 1966. In September 1966, 533 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 36 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 10E, Line 82
- ALEXANDER LORENZO BARNEYPrivate First Class · September 10, 1966
- DANNY JOSEPH DOLINPrivate First Class · September 10, 1966
- JOHN MELVILLE SCOTT JRPrivate First Class · September 10, 1966
Same unit, same day
- THOMAS CLIFTON NEWKIRKPrivate First Class · Panel 10E, Line 83
From Virginia Beach
- RALPH WINDALL CARTWRIGHTPrivate First Class · November 15, 1965
- WILLIAM A BURNETTPrivate First Class · December 29, 1965
- MARVIN BONNEY SMITH JRSpecialist Four · January 11, 1966
- ALLEN THOMAS WHEATONPrivate First Class · May 12, 1966
- RONALD EDWARD ANGESpecialist Four · May 21, 1966
- STERLING SADLER WOODSCorporal · May 10, 1967
- OTTO ANDREAE SEAMANS JRWarrant Officer 1 · May 18, 1967
- ROBERT THOMAS BOYKINPrivate First Class · May 20, 1967
- HAROLD EARL YOUNGSpecialist Five · July 27, 1967
- HERMAN C BROEGELER IIILance Corporal · August 1, 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.