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DICKIE WAINE FINLEY
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
June 29, 1947 – October 21, 1968
Service recordDickie Waine Finley, of Sweet Springs, Missouri, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He was lost on October 21, 1968, in Darlac Province, South Vietnam, and was later declared dead. His name is inscribed on Panel 40W, Line 11 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 40W · Line 11
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
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 4 INF DIV
- Born
- June 29, 1947
- Home of record
- Sweet Springs, Missouri (Saline County)
Casualty
- Date of loss
- October 21, 1968
- Province
- Darlac
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Declared Dead
- Circumstance
- Unknown
- First reported
- Missing in action
- Remains
- Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record
Context · from the records
What was happening
40 names on the Wall carry the date October 21, 1968; 23 of them were lost in Darlac Province. In October 1968, 821 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 4th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 21 of its members that month.
His remains had not been recovered when the 2008 record was compiled. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency continues to search for Americans still missing from the war; families can find case information through dpaa.mil.
Read the history
Also on Panel 40W, Line 11
- PAUL LEONARD COSGRIFFSpecialist Five · October 21, 1968
- GERARD COYLEPrivate First Class · October 21, 1968
- LESTER ALLAN DOANSpecialist Four · October 21, 1968
- EDWARD KENNETH DUELPrivate First Class · October 21, 1968
Same unit, same day
- LUTHER ANDERSON GHAHATESpecialist Four · Panel 40W, Line 12
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.