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UH-1 helicopters of the 1st Cavalry Division skim the coastline near Chu Lai, October 1967.
UH-1 helicopters of the 1st Cavalry Division skim the coastline near Chu Lai, October 1967. Photo: PFC Franklin G. Nickerson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Gerald Andrew Dorr.

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GERALD ANDREW DORR

Warrant Officer 1 · U.S. Army

July 5, 1944 – January 28, 1967

Service record

Gerald Andrew Dorr, of Gardiner, Maine, served as a Warrant Officer 1 in the U.S. Army. He died on January 28, 1967, in South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 14E, Line 90 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 14E · Line 90

Position of Panel 14E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Warrant Officer 1 (WO1)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Occupation
Helicopter Pilot, Utility And Light Cargo Single Rotor (062B)
Unit (as recorded)
129 AVN CO 10 AVN BN 17 AVN GRP 1 AVN BDE
Born
July 5, 1944
Home of record
Gardiner, Maine (Kennebec County)

Casualty

Date of death
January 28, 1967
Age
22
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Helicopter Crash — crew

Context · from the records

What was happening

21 names on the Wall carry the date January 28, 1967. In January 1967, 638 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The unit recorded as “129 AVN CO 10 AVN BN 17 AVN GRP 1 AVN BDE”, his unit in the record, lost 5 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 14E, Line 90

Same unit, same day

From Gardiner

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.