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DWIGHT LLOYD BENNETT
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
March 3, 1947 – July 31, 1967
Service recordDwight Lloyd Bennett, of Tecumseh, Oklahoma, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on July 31, 1967, in Dinh Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 24E, Line 53 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 24E · Line 53
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- March 3, 1947
- Home of record
- Tecumseh, Oklahoma (Pottawatomie County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- July 31, 1967
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Dinh Tuong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
25 names on the Wall carry the date July 31, 1967; two of them were lost in Định Tường Province. In July 1967, 1,057 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 46 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 24E, Line 53
- CRAIG HOUSTON WATERMANFirst Lieutenant · July 30, 1967
- TERRY LEROY WINTERSSpecialist Four · July 30, 1967
- THOMAS RAY ALLENMajor · July 31, 1967
- JOSEPH WAYNE BRYA ALLWOODSpecialist Five · July 31, 1967
Same unit, same day
- RICHARD LOUIS ERTLPrivate First Class · Panel 24E, Line 55
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.