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HENRY DALE ADKINS
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
August 18, 1950 – May 23, 1971
Service recordHenry Dale Adkins, of Lorain, Ohio, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on May 23, 1971, in Kien Giang Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 3W, Line 51 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 3W · Line 51
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
- Armor Reconnaissance Specialist (11D)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 AVN BDE
- Born
- August 18, 1950
- Home of record
- Lorain, Ohio (Lorain County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 23, 1971
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Kien Giang
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
Five names on the Wall carry the date May 23, 1971; two of them were lost in Kien Giang Province. In May 1971, 202 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Aviation Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 27 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 3W, Line 51
- RALPH EDWARD POSEYSpecialist Four · May 22, 1971
- ROY GENE SHADDONSergeant First Class · May 22, 1971
- PATRICK WEBERSpecialist Four · May 22, 1971
- ARMANDO MARIN ZEPEDASergeant · May 22, 1971
Same unit, same day
- PHILIP DEAN SHARPCaptain · Panel 3W, Line 52
From Lorain
- RAYMOND ELLSWORTH RUPCICFirst Lieutenant · April 6, 1965
- DONALD RAYMOND BONKOCaptain · November 26, 1965
- RONALD RALICHPrivate First Class · May 29, 1966
- THOMAS REGINALD COWLEYStaff Sergeant · August 28, 1966
- RAYMOND HODOROWSKILance Corporal · March 6, 1967
- GEORGE WILLIAM MCDANIELPrivate First Class · April 29, 1967
- JOSE HECTOR ORTIZPrivate First Class · June 28, 1967
- LARRY EDWARD FIELDSLance Corporal · July 14, 1967
- BRUCE BERNARD LIVINGSTONLance Corporal · September 2, 1967
- ROBERT JOSEPH NAGYPrivate First Class · October 17, 1967
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.