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DOUGLAS STANLEY DRESSEN
Sergeant · U.S. Army
May 16, 1948 – July 18, 1969
Service recordDouglas Stanley Dressen, of Eden Prairie, Minnesota, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on July 18, 1969, in Bien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 20W, Line 13 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 20W · Line 13
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 (SGT)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Combat Engineer (12B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 199 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- May 16, 1948
- Home of record
- Eden Prairie, Minnesota (Hennepin County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- July 18, 1969
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Bien Hoa
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
20 names on the Wall carry the date July 18, 1969; he was the only one lost in Bien Hoa Province that day. In July 1969, 834 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 199th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 20 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 20W, Line 13
- KEM L WALLACESpecialist Four · July 17, 1969
- DEAN BROOKS ALLENFirst Lieutenant · July 18, 1969
- HERBERT FRANKLIN AMRHEINSergeant · July 18, 1969
- MARVIN LEE DIPERTPrivate First Class · July 18, 1969
From Eden Prairie
- JONATHON LEE GENSSpecialist Four · April 27, 1968
- ROBERT FREDRICK GARTNERSpecialist Four · August 27, 1971
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.