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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault.
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Dennis Rae Mason.

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DENNIS RAE MASON

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

September 15, 1947 – May 28, 1968

Service record

Dennis Rae Mason, of Argyle, Wisconsin, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on May 28, 1968, in Gia Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 64W, Line 12 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 64W · Line 12

Position of Panel 64W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Military Police (95B)
Unit (as recorded)
E CO 720 MP BN USARV
Born
September 15, 1947
Home of record
Argyle, Wisconsin (Lafayette County)

Casualty

Date of death
May 28, 1968
Age
20
Province
Gia Dinh
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Burns/Smoke Inhalation

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74 names on the Wall carry the date May 28, 1968; ten of them were lost in Gia Dinh Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

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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.