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HARLEY DANIEL DIMICK
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
July 17, 1948 – May 24, 1969
Service recordHarley Daniel Dimick, of Sweet Home, Oregon, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on May 24, 1969, in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 24W, Line 94 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 24W · Line 94
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)
- 198 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- July 17, 1948
- Home of record
- Sweet Home, Oregon (Linn County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 24, 1969
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Ngai
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
45 names on the Wall carry the date May 24, 1969; 12 of them were lost in Quảng Ngãi Province. In May 1969, 1,456 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 198th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 75 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 24W, Line 94
- BENJAMIN RUBEN MONTANOSpecialist Four · May 23, 1969
- CARL DEYNEKAPrivate First Class · May 24, 1969
- MARK WILLIAM FENNERSpecialist Four · May 24, 1969
- ELMER EUGENE FIELDSPrivate · May 24, 1969
- JOHN ALOYSIUS GILLENSpecialist Four · May 24, 1969
Same unit, same day
- ROY EDWARD CLARKCorporal · Panel 24W, Line 93
- EMMETT LARUE DAVISPrivate First Class · Panel 24W, Line 93
- RONALD ALLEN YASHACKPrivate First Class · Panel 24W, Line 100
From Sweet Home
- FRED JOSEPH WILLIAMS JRLance Corporal · November 8, 1966
- KENNETH CHARLES HURSESergeant · June 12, 1967
- DALE RAY RICHTERStaff Sergeant · August 26, 1968
- TED QUINTON REED JRSergeant · March 7, 1969
- JOHN WILLIAM CARPER JRSpecialist Four · July 3, 1970
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.