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JOE DEAN HELVEY
Master Sergeant · U.S. Army
February 6, 1936 – May 18, 1968
Service recordJoe Dean Helvey, of Lawton, Oklahoma, served as a Master Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on May 18, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 32. His name is inscribed on Panel 62E, Line 18 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 62E · Line 18
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
- Master Sergeant (MSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Aircraft Maintenance Senior Sergeant (67Z)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 AVN BDE
- Born
- February 6, 1936
- Home of record
- Lawton, Oklahoma (Comanche County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 18, 1968
- Age
- 32
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
59 names on the Wall carry the date May 18, 1968; four of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Aviation Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 47 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 62E, Line 18
- DAVID GIBSONSpecialist Four · May 18, 1968
- PETER MATHEW GUENETTESpecialist Four · May 18, 1968
- ROBERT WAYNE HAMMERSpecialist Four · May 18, 1968
- JOSEPH ANTHONY PADILLASpecialist Four · May 18, 1968
Same unit, same day
- LEROY MCKEEVERPrivate First Class · Panel 62E, Line 21
- DOUGLAS ALEXANDER WALKERChief Warrant Officer 2 · Panel 63E, Line 3
From Lawton
- ARNOLD DEAN KNIFFINMajor · June 1, 1964
- CLYDE DAVID TAYLORFirst Lieutenant · January 5, 1966
- ALBERT C ROBERTSStaff Sergeant · February 28, 1966
- GARY WILLIAM EMMETTSergeant First Class · March 5, 1966
- WILFRED ALCIDE DOIRONPlatoon Sergeant · June 22, 1966
- RUSSELL EUGENE PESEWONITPrivate First Class · July 22, 1966
- HULSA D WOLFEStaff Sergeant · May 13, 1967
- LAWRENCE RAY LASITERStaff Sergeant · June 19, 1967
- DOUGLAS WAYNE HILLPrivate First Class · July 21, 1967
- JOHN DAVID MERRIMANSecond Lieutenant · August 31, 1967
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.