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DWIGHT DALE JONES
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
June 19, 1945 – February 7, 1967
Service recordDwight Dale Jones, of Morehead, Kentucky, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on February 7, 1967, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 15E, Line 5 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 15E · Line 5
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
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Welder (44C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 362 ENG CO
- Born
- June 19, 1945
- Home of record
- Morehead, Kentucky (Rowan County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 7, 1967
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
23 names on the Wall carry the date February 7, 1967; eight of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In February 1967, 767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “362 ENG CO”, his unit in the record, lost 3 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 15E, Line 5
- BILLY CHARLESSergeant First Class · February 7, 1967
- WILLIAM EDGAR HANCOCKCorporal · February 7, 1967
- BOBBY JOHN JENNINGSPrivate First Class · February 7, 1967
- THOMAS EDWARD LITHERLANDSpecialist Four · February 7, 1967
Same unit, same day
- THOMAS EDWARD LITHERLANDSpecialist Four · Panel 15E, Line 5
- JOHN LARRY LOCKWOODSpecialist Four · Panel 15E, Line 6
From Morehead
- KENNETH ALLEN HARDINStaff Sergeant · April 9, 1968
- DONALD RAY BUTLERCorporal · September 12, 1968
- BRUCE EDWARD THOMASSpecialist Four · September 25, 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.