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DENNIS W KLEIN
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
September 24, 1947 – March 6, 1968
Service recordDennis W Klein, of Keansburg, New Jersey, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on March 6, 1968, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 43E, Line 12 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 43E · Line 12
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. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Radio Operator (05B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- ENGINEERING CMD
- Born
- September 24, 1947
- Home of record
- Keansburg, New Jersey (Monmouth County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 6, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
140 names on the Wall carry the date March 6, 1968; five of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “ENGINEERING CMD”, his unit in the record, lost 15 of its members that month.
He died in Tây Ninh Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Also on Panel 43E, Line 12
- EDWARD LINDLEY VANHORNPrivate First Class · March 5, 1968
- AUGUSTINE VERGARA-ARBILPrivate First Class · March 5, 1968
- HERBERT RAY ALDRIDGEPrivate First Class · March 6, 1968
- RICHARD JAMES HALLCorporal · March 6, 1968
Same unit, same day
- GREGORY P KERNAHAN JRCaptain · Panel 43E, Line 24
- WILLIAM HENRY ROGERSSergeant · Panel 43E, Line 32
From Keansburg
- DENNIS JAMES MCCAULEYSpecialist Five · August 6, 1967
- THOMAS H BIRCHCorporal · February 23, 1968
- ALFRED BAUERFireman · January 16, 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.