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USS Enterprise on Yankee Station in the Gulf of Tonkin, May 1966.
USS Enterprise on Yankee Station in the Gulf of Tonkin, May 1966. Photo: U.S. Navy, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Jimmy Michael Dolan.

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JIMMY MICHAEL DOLAN

Seaman Recruit · U.S. Navy

February 28, 1951 – August 24, 1969

Service record

Jimmy Michael Dolan, of Newark, New Jersey, served as a Seaman Recruit in the U.S. Navy. He died on August 24, 1969, offshore, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 19W, Line 106 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 19W · Line 106

Position of Panel 19W 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. Navy
Rank
Seaman Recruit (SR)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Seaman (SN)
Born
February 28, 1951
Home of record
Newark, New Jersey (Essex County)

Casualty

Date of death
August 24, 1969
Age
18
Province
Offshore
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Drowning

Context · from the records

What was happening

30 names on the Wall carry the date August 24, 1969. In August 1969, 962 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 19W, Line 106

From Newark

All 110 names from Newark →

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.