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DONALD WAYNE DIXON
Private First Class · U.S. Army
December 20, 1948 – February 16, 1968
Service recordDonald Wayne Dixon, of Rome, Georgia, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on February 16, 1968, in Bien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 39E, Line 58 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 39E · Line 58
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 199 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- December 20, 1948
- Home of record
- Rome, Georgia (Floyd County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 16, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Bien Hoa
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
61 names on the Wall carry the date February 16, 1968; two of them were lost in Bien Hoa Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 199th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 42 of its members that month.
He died in Bien Hoa 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 39E, Line 58
- KENNY LAWRENCE COLTERPrivate · February 16, 1968
- KEITH DAVID ED WILL COONPrivate First Class · February 16, 1968
- STEVEN ERIC EMRICKLance Corporal · February 16, 1968
- JAMES OSCAR FEEMANPrivate First Class · February 16, 1968
Same unit, same day
- CHARLES E ANDERSONSpecialist Four · Panel 39E, Line 57
- JAMES OSCAR FEEMANPrivate First Class · Panel 39E, Line 58
- HAROLD PAUL GRAYSpecialist Four · Panel 39E, Line 60
- BARRY N GRIGSBYPrivate First Class · Panel 39E, Line 60
- GEORGE GERALD LESCARBEAUSpecialist Four · Panel 39E, Line 62
From Rome
- WILLIAM WELTON ENGLISH JRSpecialist Four · October 17, 1966
- WILLIAM LEE COVINGTONLieutenant · January 7, 1969
- LEROY BOYD WEBBSecond Lieutenant · April 10, 1967
- WILLIAM RAY FOWLERHospitalman · May 10, 1967
- THOMAS STEVEN JONESSpecialist Four · October 24, 1967
- JOHNNY EDWARD GANTTSergeant · March 26, 1968
- JOHNNY WAYNE SITTENLance Corporal · May 18, 1968
- JOHN DAVID GOLLAHONLieutenant (junior grade) · June 30, 1968
- RICHARD LEE JUSTICELance Corporal · July 24, 1968
- WILLIAM EDWARD FINLEYSpecialist Four · February 2, 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.