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FRANCIS EDWARD DUNLAP JR
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
December 10, 1948 – April 14, 1969
Service recordFrancis Edward Dunlap JR, of Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on April 14, 1969, in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 27W, Line 80 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 27W · Line 80
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
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- AMERICAL DIV
- Born
- December 10, 1948
- Home of record
- Bellefonte, Pennsylvania (Centre County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 14, 1969
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Ngai
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Burns/Smoke Inhalation
Context · from the records
What was happening
27 names on the Wall carry the date April 14, 1969; four of them were lost in Quảng Ngãi Province. In April 1969, 1,023 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The Americal Division, his unit in the record, lost 14 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 27W, Line 80
- NORMAN CECIL BYRDLance Corporal · April 14, 1969
- JAMES WILLIAM DEANLance Corporal · April 14, 1969
- ROBERT MICHAEL GENDRONSergeant · April 14, 1969
- MICHAEL KENT NICKERSONFirst Lieutenant · April 14, 1969
From Bellefonte
- AARON BUCKLEY AUMILLERSpecialist Five · May 4, 1966
- RAYMOND ARTHUR DUBBSFirst Lieutenant · March 10, 1968
- LEWIS PHILIP SMITH IIMajor · May 30, 1968
- DAVID JOHN ECKENRODESecond Lieutenant · July 21, 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.