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DWIGHT A DEDRICK
Warrant Officer 1 · U.S. Army
August 15, 1945 – January 31, 1968
Service recordDwight A Dedrick, of Delevan, New York, served as a Warrant Officer 1 in the U.S. Army. He died on January 31, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 36E, Line 5 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 36E · Line 5
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Warrant Officer 1 (WO1)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Helicopter Pilot, Utility And Light Cargo Single Rotor (062B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 AVN BDE
- Born
- August 15, 1945
- Home of record
- Delevan, New York (Cattaraugus County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 31, 1968
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
246 names on the Wall carry the date January 31, 1968; 28 of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In January 1968, 1,546 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Aviation Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 33 of its members that month.
He died in Thừa Thiên Province while the Battle of Huế was under way. At Huế (31 January–2 March 1968), Marines, soldiers of the 1st Cavalry and 101st Airborne divisions and South Vietnamese troops fought house to house for 26 days to retake the old imperial capital, the longest urban battle of the war. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Also on Panel 36E, Line 5
- WILLIAM JOSEPH CYRSergeant · January 31, 1968
- CHARLES LINCOLN DANIELSpecialist Four · January 31, 1968
- ARTHUR J DELA HOUSSAYE JRCaptain · January 31, 1968
Same unit, same day
- ROGER SLETTEN CAMERONWarrant Officer 1 · Panel 36E, Line 1
- WILLIAM BRADLEY DUNCANWarrant Officer 1 · Panel 36E, Line 7
- AUBREY GOFF JRSergeant · Panel 36E, Line 10
- FRED KAWAILANI MAS HATADASpecialist Four · Panel 36E, Line 13
- KENNETH EUGENE HOTCHKISSPrivate First Class · Panel 36E, Line 16
- THOMAS WOODROW MOORESpecialist Four · Panel 36E, Line 25
- DONALD LAMAR SMITHSergeant · Panel 36E, Line 36
- BERNARD DAVID THOMPSON JRLieutenant Colonel · Panel 36E, Line 39
- JAMES MATHEW VRBA JRMajor · Panel 36E, Line 41
- CHARLES AUGUSTUS YEOMANSPrivate First Class · Panel 36E, Line 44
From Delevan
- ROBERT ALAN HARRISONPrivate First Class · January 11, 1970
- RALPH WILLIAM BIGELOWChief Warrant Officer 2 · May 22, 1970
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.