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DEWEY VERN RAY
Private First Class · U.S. Army
July 9, 1947 – September 14, 1969
Service recordDewey Vern Ray, of Frankfort, Michigan, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on September 14, 1969, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 18W, Line 87 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 18W · Line 87
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Armor Reconnaissance Specialist (11D)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 196 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- July 9, 1947
- Home of record
- Frankfort, Michigan (Benzie County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 14, 1969
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Quang Tin
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Burns/Smoke Inhalation
Context · from the records
What was happening
36 names on the Wall carry the date September 14, 1969; four of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In September 1969, 664 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 196th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 28 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 18W, Line 87
- THOMAS LYNN SNYDERSpecialist Four · September 14, 1969
- GARY KELVIN STANFIELDSpecialist Four · September 14, 1969
- MARK JOHN STEPHANACSpecialist Five · September 14, 1969
- LARRY EUGENE SWEETSergeant · September 14, 1969
Same unit, same day
- DONALD WALTER CHURCHWELLSergeant · Panel 18W, Line 81
- MICHAEL EARL KOONCEPrivate · Panel 18W, Line 83
- LARRY EUGENE SWEETSergeant · Panel 18W, Line 87
From Frankfort
- WILLIAM ARTHUR GABRIELSENSpecialist Four · March 10, 1970
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.