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HARRY CLINTON DORSETT
Corporal · U.S. Army
March 23, 1948 – December 12, 1968
Service recordHarry Clinton Dorsett, of Mitchell, Indiana, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Army. He died on December 12, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 36W, Line 11 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 36W · Line 11
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
- Corporal (CPL)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- March 23, 1948
- Home of record
- Mitchell, Indiana (Lawrence County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 12, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
17 names on the Wall carry the date December 12, 1968; he was the only one lost in Thừa Thiên Province that day. In December 1968, 855 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 19 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 36W, Line 11
- STANLEY CARL FULLERSpecialist Four · December 12, 1968
- DOUGLAS BERNARD KEHOESpecialist Four · December 12, 1968
- JOHNNY KINGSpecialist Four · December 12, 1968
- JOE EARL LADELLSpecialist Four · December 12, 1968
- ROBERT JOSEPH QUINNSergeant · September 24, 1969
From Mitchell
- DELNO BILLY COLLINGSWORTHSpecialist Four · May 30, 1966
- CHARLES EDWARD DUNCANCorporal · June 28, 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.