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JAMES CHARLES DINE
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
April 26, 1949 – August 9, 1969
Service recordJames Charles Dine, of Granite City, Illinois, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on August 9, 1969, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 20W, Line 117 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 20W · Line 117
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Five (SP5)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Heavy Lift Helicopter Repairer (67X)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
- Born
- April 26, 1949
- Home of record
- Granite City, Illinois (Madison County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 9, 1969
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
20 names on the Wall carry the date August 9, 1969; four of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In August 1969, 962 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 99 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 20W, Line 117
- JOHN DALE BRINGLance Corporal · August 9, 1969
- VIRGIL LEE CASTLECorporal · August 9, 1969
- PHILIP GENE DESLAURIERSLance Corporal · August 9, 1969
- PAUL ANTHONY DEVEGTERSpecialist Four · August 9, 1969
Same unit, same day
- VIRGIL LEE CASTLECorporal · Panel 20W, Line 117
- FRED ANDERSON FEDDERWarrant Officer 1 · Panel 20W, Line 118
- MICHAEL ROBERT SEIBERTSpecialist Four · Panel 20W, Line 119
- STEPHEN ANDREW YOUNGWarrant Officer 1 · Panel 20W, Line 120
From Granite City
- ROBERT EDWARD EMERYPrivate · December 9, 1965
- GENE E CHEPELYPrivate First Class · February 7, 1966
- JOHN BERNARD CAUSEYCaptain · February 25, 1966
- LOREN EUGENE BRADLEYPrivate First Class · April 29, 1966
- RALPH ROGER JUSTICEStaff Sergeant · January 6, 1967
- JAMES RAY DOWDYPrivate First Class · May 3, 1967
- JOE CARL LEUTENEGGERPrivate First Class · July 2, 1967
- RICHARD EUGENE SHILTSpecialist Four · August 17, 1967
- RICHARD JOHN GIEBECorporal · November 9, 1967
- MICHAEL EDWARD ADAMSSergeant · November 19, 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.