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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault.
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Dexter Duane Harbour.

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DEXTER DUANE HARBOUR

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

August 27, 1950 – February 20, 1970

Service record

Dexter Duane Harbour, of Ulysses, Kansas, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on February 20, 1970, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 13W, Line 35 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 13W · Line 35

Position of Panel 13W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Regular
Occupation
Armor Reconnaissance Specialist (11D)
Unit (as recorded)
196 LIGHT INF BDE
Born
August 27, 1950
Home of record
Ulysses, Kansas (Grant County)

Casualty

Date of death
February 20, 1970
Age
19
Province
Quang Tin
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Burns/Smoke Inhalation

Context · from the records

What was happening

29 names on the Wall carry the date February 20, 1970; 12 of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In February 1970, 569 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 196th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 24 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 13W, Line 35

Same unit, same day

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.