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Troopers of the 2nd Battalion, 503rd Infantry, 173rd Airborne Brigade, watch a UH-1D land, March 1970.
Troopers of the 2nd Battalion, 503rd Infantry, 173rd Airborne Brigade, watch a UH-1D land, March 1970. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of James Edwin Dolan.

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JAMES EDWIN DOLAN

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

April 8, 1947 – May 25, 1970

Service record

James Edwin Dolan, of Scituate, Massachusetts, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on May 25, 1970, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 10W, Line 96 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 10W · Line 96

Position of Panel 10W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Regular
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
173 AIRBORNE BDE
Born
April 8, 1947
Home of record
Scituate, Massachusetts (Plymouth County)

Casualty

Date of death
May 25, 1970
Age
23
Province
Binh Dinh
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Died of Wounds
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

40 names on the Wall carry the date May 25, 1970; 13 of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In May 1970, 917 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 30 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 10W, Line 96

Same unit, same day

From Scituate

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.