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DILLARD GALE RYE
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
November 10, 1941 – February 10, 1968
Service recordDillard Gale Rye, of Dos Palos, California, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on February 10, 1968, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 26. His name is inscribed on Panel 38E, Line 71 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 38E · Line 71
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Armor Reconnaissance Specialist (11D)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 196 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- November 10, 1941
- Home of record
- Dos Palos, California (Merced County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 10, 1968
- Age
- 26
- Province
- Quang Tin
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
54 names on the Wall carry the date February 10, 1968; two of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 196th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 40 of its members that month.
He died in Quảng Tín Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Also on Panel 38E, Line 71
- CARL ELVING PETERSONColonel · February 10, 1968
- THOMAS MICHAEL PINATELLIPrivate First Class · February 10, 1968
- MICHAEL JOHN RAMBERGSergeant · February 10, 1968
- JOHN WAYNE ROWDENPrivate First Class · February 10, 1968
From Dos Palos
- DEAN NELSON RASCHKESergeant · June 16, 1967
- RAYMOND WOODROW TEMPLETONSergeant · June 11, 1968
- LINUS ROBERT ROECorporal · February 11, 1969
- SHERMAN DALTON MONKPrivate First Class · September 11, 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.