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EDDIE LEROY DODD
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
May 21, 1951 – March 25, 1971
Service recordEddie Leroy Dodd, of Lubbock, Texas, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on March 25, 1971, in Pleiku Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 4W, Line 75 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 4W · Line 75
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
- Water Treatment Specialist (51N)
- Unit (as recorded)
- US ARMY REP OF VIETNAM
- Born
- May 21, 1951
- Home of record
- Lubbock, Texas (Lubbock County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 25, 1971
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Pleiku
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
18 names on the Wall carry the date March 25, 1971; two of them were lost in Pleiku Province. In March 1971, 429 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “US ARMY REP OF VIETNAM”, his unit in the record, lost 60 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 4W, Line 75
- BERNARDO KEALOHA RAMOSCorporal · March 24, 1971
- ROBERT DANIEL WALTERSPrivate First Class · March 24, 1971
- ARTHUR WILSON JRSpecialist Five · March 24, 1971
- MICHAEL DALE WRIGHTSpecialist Four · March 24, 1971
Same unit, same day
- CHRIS BROWN JRSpecialist Four · Panel 4W, Line 76
- OLIN DEWEY MARLAR IIISpecialist Four · Panel 4W, Line 77
- JEROME ELLIS JACKSONPrivate · Panel 4W, Line 78
From Lubbock
- CHARLES DON WITTLieutenant · May 24, 1967
- WAYLEN LEE POWELLSpecialist Four · July 4, 1967
- JACK ALBERT BERRYLance Corporal · September 4, 1967
- JOE LOVATO JRSpecialist Four · October 17, 1967
- JOSE LOUIS MORENOPrivate First Class · November 29, 1967
- WADE E THACKREY JRCorporal · February 15, 1968
- FREDRIC CECIL MCCASKILLPrivate First Class · June 19, 1968
- ROBERT JOSEPH WRIGHTPrivate First Class · September 5, 1968
- CLIFFORD WAYNE FIESZELLieutenant Colonel · September 30, 1968
- RAYMOND MARSHALL TANNERSpecialist Five · October 27, 1968
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.