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DOUGLAS EDWARD DAHILL
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
March 6, 1949 – April 17, 1969
Service recordDouglas Edward Dahill, of Lima, Ohio, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He was lost on April 17, 1969, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, and was later declared dead. His name is inscribed on Panel 27W, Line 99 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 27W · Line 99
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
- March 6, 1949
- Home of record
- Lima, Ohio (Allen County)
Casualty
- Date of loss
- April 17, 1969
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Declared Dead
- Circumstance
- Unknown
- First reported
- Missing in action
- Remains
- Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record
Context · from the records
What was happening
35 names on the Wall carry the date April 17, 1969; four of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In April 1969, 1,023 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 13 of its members that month.
His remains had not been recovered when the 2008 record was compiled. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency continues to search for Americans still missing from the war; families can find case information through dpaa.mil.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 27W, Line 99
- JOHN CECIL DRIVERFirst Lieutenant · April 17, 1969
- MIKE DUANE GEARHEARTSpecialist Four · April 17, 1969
- LARRY ELLSWORTH GRAHAMPrivate First Class · April 17, 1969
- WILLIAM WILLIS GRIFFITHSergeant · April 17, 1969
Same unit, same day
- CHARLES VERNON NEWTONMaster Sergeant · Panel 27W, Line 102
- CHARLES FRANCIS PREVEDELSergeant First Class · Panel 27W, Line 103
From Lima
- LARRY LEE TRUESDALEStaff Sergeant · September 18, 1965
- MARINER PATRICKPrivate First Class · November 12, 1965
- ARMON D SHINGLEDECKERCaptain · May 31, 1966
- DANIEL LEE GARRISONSeaman · December 26, 1966
- DAVID EUGENE GOSSARDPrivate First Class · September 20, 1967
- JAMES DUDLEY SHAFERSergeant · November 6, 1967
- LOUIS TIMOTHY HAZZARDPrivate First Class · January 9, 1968
- MICHAEL DWAINE NEWLANDPrivate First Class · April 9, 1968
- JOHN FRANKLIN KENNEDYPrivate First Class · June 16, 1968
- MICHAEL DONVIAN WILSONPrivate First Class · September 3, 1968
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.