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DONALD CLAY DEDMON
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
August 30, 1934 – June 10, 1965
Service recordDonald Clay Dedmon, of Chicago, Illinois, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on June 10, 1965, in South Vietnam, at age 30. His name is inscribed on Panel 2E, Line 4 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 2E · Line 4
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- August 30, 1934
- Home of record
- Chicago, Illinois (Cook County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 10, 1965
- Age
- 30
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
19 names on the Wall carry the date June 10, 1965. In June 1965, 146 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.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 2E, Line 4
- JOSEPH JAMES COMPA JRStaff Sergeant · June 10, 1965
- ROBERT LEE CURLEE JRStaff Sergeant · June 10, 1965
- CARL LOUIS DOUGHTIELieutenant (junior grade) · June 10, 1965
- RAYMOND CLARENCE GALBRAITHChief Warrant Officer 2 · June 10, 1965
Same unit, same day
- CHARLES OWEN JENKINS JRSergeant · Panel 2E, Line 5
- BOBBY RUSSELLSergeant First Class · Panel 2E, Line 6
From Chicago
- MELVIN LESTER WATERSPrivate · February 10, 1965
- WILLIAM RALPH FUHRMANPetty Officer Third Class · April 23, 1965
- RAYMOND LEON HORNCorporal · May 1, 1965
- ARTHUR C JEPSON JRCaptain · May 16, 1965
- ROGER PELIKANLance Corporal · July 17, 1965
- HARRY COHENTechnical Sergeant · July 19, 1969
- CURTIS LOCKHARTPrivate First Class · July 30, 1965
- EDWARD KOPECPrivate First Class · August 18, 1965
- JAMES LEO WHITELance Corporal · August 19, 1965
- JAMES JOSEPH VOTAVA JRLance Corporal · August 24, 1965
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.