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Australian, American, South Vietnamese and Korean soldiers at the Đức Mỹ Ranger Training Center, December 1965.
Australian, American, South Vietnamese and Korean soldiers at the Đức Mỹ Ranger Training Center, December 1965. Photo: SP5 Allan K. Holm, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Dominick Sansone.

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DOMINICK SANSONE

Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army

July 3, 1930 – December 10, 1964

Service record

Dominick Sansone, of New York, New York, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on December 10, 1964, in South Vietnam, at age 34. His name is inscribed on Panel 1E, Line 76 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 1E · Line 76

Position of Panel 1E 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
Sergeant First Class (SFC)
Service
Regular
Unit (as recorded)
SPECIAL FORCES
Born
July 3, 1930
Home of record
New York, New York (Kings County)

Casualty

Date of death
December 10, 1964
Age
34
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Aircraft Crash — Passenger (MC)

Context · from the records

What was happening

Two names on the Wall carry the date December 10, 1964. In December 1964, 36 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 5 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 1E, Line 76

From New York

All 1370 names from New York →

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.