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EDGAR ALLEN DEES JR
Petty Officer Third Class · U.S. Navy
July 23, 1948 – March 8, 1969
Service recordEdgar Allen Dees JR, of Mobile, Alabama, served as a Petty Officer Third Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on March 8, 1969, in Vinh Long Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 30W, Line 73 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 30W · Line 73
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. Navy
- Rank
- Petty Officer Third Class (PO3)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Gunner's Mate (Guns) (GMG)
- Unit (as recorded)
- USNAVFORV
- Born
- July 23, 1948
- Home of record
- Mobile, Alabama (Mobile County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 8, 1969
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Vinh Long
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
73 names on the Wall carry the date March 8, 1969; he was the only one lost in Vinh Long Province that day. In March 1969, 1,553 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “USNAVFORV”, his unit in the record, lost 5 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 30W, Line 73
- WALTER ANDREW CARPENTERWarrant Officer 1 · March 8, 1969
- LEONARD ROGER CATONSecond Lieutenant · March 8, 1969
- WILLIAM THOMAS CRAIG JRStaff Sergeant · March 8, 1969
- DAVID HENRY DEFORGEFirst Lieutenant · March 8, 1969
From Mobile
- ANDREW C MITCHELL IIICaptain · April 8, 1963
- DAVID RUDOLPH DICKENSFirst Sergeant · November 1, 1965
- EDDIE LEE HILL JRCorporal · November 4, 1965
- SHERMAN ELDRIDGE OTISPrivate First Class · November 17, 1965
- NATHANIEL EARL CARTER IIISergeant · November 25, 1965
- ROBERT EDWARD BEXLEYPrivate First Class · January 30, 1966
- ROBERT LOUIS BEATONSergeant · February 22, 1966
- JOSEPH EMMETT LILLEYPrivate First Class · May 14, 1966
- JAMES DWIGHT NEWCOMBLance Corporal · July 17, 1966
- TIMOTHY SCOTT DAVIESLance Corporal · July 20, 1966
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.