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DONALD ANDREW DIX
Chief Petty Officer · U.S. Navy
September 27, 1936 – December 19, 1972
Service recordDonald Andrew Dix, of Idledale, Colorado, served as a Chief Petty Officer in the U.S. Navy. He died on December 19, 1972, in North Vietnam, at age 36. His name is inscribed on Panel 1W, Line 95 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 1W · Line 95
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. Navy
- Rank
- Chief Petty Officer (CPO)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Hull Maintenance Technician (HT)
- Born
- September 27, 1936
- Home of record
- Idledale, Colorado (Jefferson County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 19, 1972
- Age
- 36
- Country
- North Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Ship/Submarine Accident At Sea (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
Seven names on the Wall carry the date December 19, 1972. In December 1972, 75 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in North Vietnam while Linebacker II was under way. In Linebacker II (18–29 December 1972), B-52s and fighter-bombers struck Hanoi and Haiphong for eleven days; fifteen B-52s were lost to SA-2 missiles before North Vietnam returned to the Paris talks.
Read the history
Also on Panel 1W, Line 95
- DONALD LOUIS RISSILieutenant Colonel · December 18, 1972
- ROBERT JAMES THOMASCaptain · December 18, 1972
- RONALD JACK WARDColonel · December 18, 1972
- RICHARD WALLER COOPER JRMajor · December 19, 1972
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.