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Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966.
Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966. Photo: SP5 Charles V. Hoover, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Jack Leroy Dodson.

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JACK LEROY DODSON

First Lieutenant · U.S. Army

February 14, 1938 – May 26, 1967

Service record

Jack Leroy Dodson, of Kimberly, Idaho, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on May 26, 1967, in South Vietnam, at age 29. His name is inscribed on Panel 20E, Line 113 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 20E · Line 113

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
First Lieutenant (1LT)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Occupation
Air Observation Pilot (1981)
Unit (as recorded)
D TRP 3 SQD 5 CAV 9 INF DIV
Born
February 14, 1938
Home of record
Kimberly, Idaho (Twin Falls County)

Casualty

Date of death
May 26, 1967
Age
29
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)

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91 names on the Wall carry the date May 26, 1967. In May 1967, 1,396 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

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From Kimberly

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.