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JOE DANIEL DUNN
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Marine Corps
August 5, 1940 – March 1, 1968
Service recordJoe Daniel Dunn, of Weslaco, Texas, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on March 1, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 27. His name is inscribed on Panel 42E, Line 15 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 42E · Line 15
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Staff Sergeant (SSGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantry Unit Leader (0369)
- Born
- August 5, 1940
- Home of record
- Weslaco, Texas (Hidalgo County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 1, 1968
- Age
- 27
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
70 names on the Wall carry the date March 1, 1968; 11 of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in Thừa Thiên Province while the Battle of Huế was under way. At Huế (31 January–2 March 1968), Marines, soldiers of the 1st Cavalry and 101st Airborne divisions and South Vietnamese troops fought house to house for 26 days to retake the old imperial capital, the longest urban battle of the war. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Also on Panel 42E, Line 15
- LARRY WAYNE BENGELance Corporal · March 1, 1968
- LAWRENCE ADDINSON DODDPrivate First Class · March 1, 1968
- ADOLPHUS ELLISPrivate First Class · March 1, 1968
- JERRY WAYNE FERRENLance Corporal · March 1, 1968
From Weslaco
- JAMES CALVIN CASTONCaptain · August 10, 1965
- ROBERTO PEREZCorporal · February 9, 1966
- MARIO YBARRAPrivate First Class · March 6, 1966
- JAVIER BECERRALance Corporal · April 20, 1967
- JOSE ANTONIO ROSASStaff Sergeant · May 8, 1967
- RUBEN RIVERALance Corporal · August 26, 1969
- ROBERT BRADFORD HAYSCorporal · July 21, 1970
- JESUS GARCIA SEPULVEDAStaff Sergeant · June 16, 1972
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.