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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Donald Myron Dyce.

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DONALD MYRON DYCE

Private First Class · U.S. Army

May 7, 1949 – October 26, 1969

Service record

Donald Myron Dyce, of New Middletown, Ohio, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on October 26, 1969, in Long An Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 17W, Line 120 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 17W · Line 120

Position of Panel 17W 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
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
9 INF DIV
Born
May 7, 1949
Home of record
New Middletown, Ohio (Mahoning County)

Casualty

Date of death
October 26, 1969
Age
20
Province
Long An
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Grenade

Context · from the records

What was happening

21 names on the Wall carry the date October 26, 1969; he was the only one lost in Long An Province that day. In October 1969, 600 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 4 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 17W, Line 120

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.