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JAMES DALE DILLON
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
April 5, 1937 – April 9, 1968
Service recordJames Dale Dillon, of Jacksonville, Florida, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on April 9, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 31. His name is inscribed on Panel 48E, Line 57 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 48E · Line 57
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Medical Specialist (91B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 82 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- April 5, 1937
- Home of record
- Jacksonville, Florida (Duval County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 9, 1968
- Age
- 31
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
42 names on the Wall carry the date April 9, 1968; eight of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 82nd Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 18 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 48E, Line 57
- JAMES RUSSELL CHINNSpecialist Five · April 9, 1968
- JAMES WILLIAM COOPERSpecialist Five · April 9, 1968
- PATRICK CHARLES COUGHLINPrivate First Class · April 9, 1968
- THOMAS FRANCIS DAZEY JRSpecialist Four · April 9, 1968
Same unit, same day
- CHARLIE RAINEYSergeant · Panel 49E, Line 5
From Jacksonville
- LOYE THOMAS CHRISTMASPrivate First Class · January 17, 1964
- WYLEY WRIGHT JRSpecialist Five · March 9, 1964
- OTIS GORDON JRMajor · November 19, 1964
- HORACE CLEVELAND COLLINSSpecialist Four · February 10, 1965
- JAMES HENRY KINGSergeant First Class · October 6, 1965
- RODNEY CARSWELL HARRISPrivate First Class · November 1, 1965
- HENRY TUCKER CANNONSergeant First Class · November 8, 1965
- NATHANIEL BYRDSpecialist Four · November 15, 1965
- WILLIE FRANK GODBOLDTSpecialist Four · November 15, 1965
- ALEXANDER WILLIAMSSergeant · November 15, 1965
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.