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Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969.
Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969. Photo: U.S. Marine Corps, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of John Dudley Dalhouse.

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JOHN DUDLEY DALHOUSE

Captain · U.S. Marine Corps

October 4, 1940 – July 3, 1968

Service record

John Dudley Dalhouse, of Montgomery, Alabama, served as a Captain in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on July 3, 1968, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 27. His name is inscribed on Panel 54W, Line 41 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 54W · Line 41

Position of Panel 54W 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. Marine Corps
Rank
Captain (CAPT)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Infantry Officer (I) (0302)
Born
October 4, 1940
Home of record
Montgomery, Alabama (Montgomery County)

Casualty

Date of death
July 3, 1968
Age
27
Province
Quang Nam
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)

Context · from the records

What was happening

48 names on the Wall carry the date July 3, 1968; 18 of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In July 1968, 993 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 54W, Line 41

From Montgomery

All 50 names from Montgomery →

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.