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DENNIS THOMAS CUNNANE
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
June 19, 1948 – January 31, 1968
Service recordDennis Thomas Cunnane, of Levittown, Pennsylvania, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on January 31, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 36E, Line 4 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 36E · Line 4
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Born
- June 19, 1948
- Home of record
- Levittown, Pennsylvania (Bucks County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 31, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
246 names on the Wall carry the date January 31, 1968; 24 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In January 1968, 1,546 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in Quảng Trị Province while the siege of Khe Sanh was under way. From 21 January 1968, North Vietnamese divisions besieged the Marine combat base at Khe Sanh and its hill outposts near the Laotian border for 77 days, while U.S. aircraft dropped some 100,000 tons of bombs around it. Operation Pegasus reached the base on 8 April. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Read the history
Also on Panel 36E, Line 4
- CHARLES EVERETT CRANDALLPetty Officer Third Class · January 31, 1968
- ROGER BRIAN CROWELLSpecialist Four · January 31, 1968
- GORDON LEROY CURRIER JRPrivate First Class · January 31, 1968
- WYATT CECIL GORDONSergeant · January 31, 1968
- GREGORY VAUGHAN GRAYSergeant · January 31, 1968
- FLETCHER LEON LEWISSpecialist Four · January 31, 1968
From Levittown
- JOSEPH PAUL YATSKO JRFirst Lieutenant · December 18, 1965
- JOHN WILLIAM THOMASSpecialist Four · January 10, 1966
- ALAN ROBERT SCHULTZLance Corporal · August 11, 1967
- PATRICK ROBERT ROYPrivate First Class · December 16, 1967
- THEODORE K KALEIKINI JRSergeant · January 18, 1968
- JAMES WALKER GUESTPrivate First Class · February 20, 1968
- STEVEN MICHAEL BEZENSKISpecialist Five · March 26, 1968
- STANLEY R STELLMACH JRSergeant · April 14, 1968
- MICHAEL FRANCIS DEENY IIIPrivate First Class · May 21, 1968
- ARTHUR MICHAEL DAYSpecialist Five · May 8, 1969
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.