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JAMES R DORSEY JR
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
July 13, 1946 – April 26, 1969
Service recordJames R Dorsey JR, of Clements, Maryland, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on April 26, 1969, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 26W, Line 53 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 26W · Line 53
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Utility Helicopter Repairer (67N)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- July 13, 1946
- Home of record
- Clements, Maryland (St Mary's County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 26, 1969
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — crew
Context · from the records
What was happening
39 names on the Wall carry the date April 26, 1969; two of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In April 1969, 1,023 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 83 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 26W, Line 53
- JOSEPH MICHAEL CORNELISONSpecialist Four · April 26, 1969
- JAMES BOYD EAST JRMajor · April 26, 1969
- GEORGE ELWOOD EATONStaff Sergeant · April 26, 1969
- FRANCISCO M GARCIA JRSpecialist Four · April 26, 1969
Same unit, same day
- SETH EARL RANDOLPHSpecialist Four · Panel 26W, Line 56
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.