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JACK PARIS DOVE SR
Captain · U.S. Air Force
September 9, 1940 – July 12, 1967
Service recordJack Paris Dove SR, of Bluefield, Virginia, served as a Captain in the U.S. Air Force. He died on July 12, 1967, in North Vietnam, at age 26. His name is inscribed on Panel 23E, Line 57 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 23E · Line 57
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Air Force
- Rank
- Captain (CAPT)
- Service
- Regular
- Born
- September 9, 1940
- Home of record
- Bluefield, Virginia (Tazewell County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- July 12, 1967
- Age
- 26
- Country
- North Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
56 names on the Wall carry the date July 12, 1967. In July 1967, 1,057 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in North Vietnam while Operation Rolling Thunder was under way. Operation Rolling Thunder (March 1965–November 1968) was the sustained U.S. bombing campaign against North Vietnam, flown by Air Force fighter-bombers from Thailand and Navy aircraft from carriers in the Gulf of Tonkin against some of the densest air defenses in the world.
Also on Panel 23E, Line 57
- JACK J COOPERWOOD IIISpecialist Four · July 12, 1967
- RONALD EDWARD CRAINSpecialist Four · July 12, 1967
- ROBERT EDWIN ECHOLSPrivate First Class · July 12, 1967
- CLAUDE EUGENE ELMORESergeant · July 12, 1967
From Bluefield
- DANIEL CORTEZ REESEAirman First Class · March 9, 1967
- WILLIAM DAVID PRUETTSenior Master Sergeant · January 28, 1970
- THOMAS EDWARD EPPERSONSergeant · June 9, 1971
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.