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GEORGE BENNIE DUKES
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
November 1, 1947 – June 30, 1968
Service recordGeorge Bennie Dukes, of Branchville, South Carolina, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on June 30, 1968, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 54W, Line 23 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 54W · Line 23
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- November 1, 1947
- Home of record
- Branchville, South Carolina (Orangeburg County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 30, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
20 names on the Wall carry the date June 30, 1968; two of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In June 1968, 1,257 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 74 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 54W, Line 23
- JAMES VIRL DENHAMSergeant · June 30, 1968
- TERRY EUGENE DIFFENDERFERPrivate First Class · June 30, 1968
- JOHN CURTIS FIELDSSpecialist Four · June 30, 1968
- JOHN DAVID GOLLAHONLieutenant (junior grade) · June 30, 1968
Same unit, same day
- DONALD HICKSSpecialist Four · Panel 54W, Line 24
From Branchville
- ROBERT MITCHELL CRAIGStaff Sergeant · July 25, 1967
- CURTIS BOWMANCorporal · August 17, 1969
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.