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DEWEY IRVIN STRUEBING
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
April 27, 1949 – February 9, 1969
Service recordDewey Irvin Struebing, of Grand Island, Nebraska, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on February 9, 1969, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 32W, Line 2 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 32W · Line 2
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
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- April 27, 1949
- Home of record
- Grand Island, Nebraska (Hall County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 9, 1969
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
34 names on the Wall carry the date February 9, 1969; he was the only one lost in Thừa Thiên Province that day. In February 1969, 1,304 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 44 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 32W, Line 2
- WILLIAM RAYMOND PROMLance Corporal · February 9, 1969
- MILTON ALAN ROSSPrivate First Class · February 9, 1969
- JOSE MANUEL TREJOPrivate First Class · February 9, 1969
- JOHN LESLIE WEHRSergeant · February 9, 1969
From Grand Island
- RICHARD P SAWICKISpecialist Four · November 17, 1965
- MONTE LARUE MOORBERGCaptain · December 2, 1966
- JAN ROYCE GILLHAMPrivate First Class · February 2, 1968
- RICHARD GERALD GILLHAMCorporal · January 10, 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.