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JAMES HERBERT DYE
Corporal · U.S. Army
November 13, 1946 – May 13, 1969
Service recordJames Herbert Dye, of Marietta, Ohio, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Army. He died on May 13, 1969, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 25W, Line 98 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 25W · Line 98
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Corporal (CPL)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 198 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- November 13, 1946
- Home of record
- Marietta, Ohio (Washington County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 13, 1969
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Quang Tin
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
112 names on the Wall carry the date May 13, 1969; 17 of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In May 1969, 1,456 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 198th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 75 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 25W, Line 98
- ODELL DANIEL BEASLEYPrivate First Class · May 13, 1969
- JAMES ROBERT DUNKLECorporal · May 13, 1969
- WILLIAM GARY EGGENBERGERSpecialist Four · May 13, 1969
- JOHN VINCENT FOLGERPrivate First Class · May 13, 1969
Same unit, same day
- MICHAEL DELANO BLEAPrivate First Class · Panel 25W, Line 94
- KILBERN DEAN BOUDRAPrivate First Class · Panel 25W, Line 95
- ROBERT AYERS GRUHNSpecialist Four · Panel 25W, Line 101
- RONALD WAYNE MARRSSpecialist Four · Panel 25W, Line 105
- JOHN EDWARD RAYSergeant First Class · Panel 25W, Line 109
From Marietta
- DENNIS L PHILLIPSPrivate First Class · July 7, 1966
- RONALD CHARLES DAILEYSpecialist Four · May 29, 1967
- DAVID CLIFTON SCARBROUGHPrivate First Class · February 25, 1968
- FREDERICK WAYNE TAYLORSpecialist Five · May 15, 1968
- JOSEPH DELMAR RUTTER JRPrivate First Class · May 23, 1968
- DONALD KEITH VADAKINSpecialist Four · December 11, 1968
- THOMAS MICHAEL BROCKMEIERPrivate First Class · March 7, 1970
- SCOTT RONDAL COPLINCorporal · April 21, 1970
- BRUCE CHARLES SHOVERPrivate First Class · January 16, 1971
- DOUGLAS MILTON SEELEYCaptain · March 17, 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.