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DENNIS WAYNE HEFFNER
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
January 16, 1950 – August 16, 1968
Service recordDennis Wayne Heffner, of Lebanon, Indiana, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on August 16, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 48W, Line 26 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 48W · Line 26
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
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- January 16, 1950
- Home of record
- Lebanon, Indiana (Boone County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 16, 1968
- Age
- 18
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
55 names on the Wall carry the date August 16, 1968; 31 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In August 1968, 1,313 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 48W, Line 26
- RICHARD LE ROY HALLLance Corporal · August 16, 1968
- CHARLES MCRAE HARDYPrivate First Class · August 16, 1968
- OTIS LAMONT HARTRYPrivate First Class · August 16, 1968
- DAN DAVID HAYESSergeant · August 16, 1968
From Lebanon
- ROBERT LEE REYNOLDS JRPrivate First Class · June 22, 1966
- DAVID R FISHERSpecialist Five · April 10, 1967
- ROBERT EUGENE VEACHLance Corporal · June 19, 1968
- MICHAEL DAVID HALECorporal · August 18, 1968
- RICHARD CRAIG STEVENSSpecialist Four · November 23, 1968
- STANLEY MELVIN CLINGLERPrivate First Class · March 26, 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.