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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 Dwayne Robert Pickart.

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DWAYNE ROBERT PICKART

Corporal · U.S. Army

July 8, 1948 – May 8, 1969

Service record

Dwayne Robert Pickart, of Norway, Iowa, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Army. He died on May 8, 1969, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 25W, Line 24 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 25W · Line 24

Position of Panel 25W 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
Corporal (CPL)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
101 AIRBORNE DIV
Born
July 8, 1948
Home of record
Norway, Iowa (Benton County)

Casualty

Date of death
May 8, 1969
Age
20
Province
Quang Nam
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

36 names on the Wall carry the date May 8, 1969; ten of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In May 1969, 1,456 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 178 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 25W, Line 24

Same unit, same day

From Norway

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.