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JOSEPH FRANCIS DYER JR
Private First Class · U.S. Army
July 16, 1947 – November 18, 1967
Service recordJoseph Francis Dyer JR, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on November 18, 1967, in Kontum Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 30E, Line 15 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 30E · Line 15
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- July 16, 1947
- Home of record
- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (Allegheny County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 18, 1967
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Kontum
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
43 names on the Wall carry the date November 18, 1967; 14 of them were lost in Kon Tum Province. In November 1967, 1,133 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 212 of its members that month.
He died in Kon Tum Province while the Battle of Đắk Tô was under way. Around Đắk Tô in the Central Highlands (3–23 November 1967), the 4th Infantry Division and the 173rd Airborne Brigade fought North Vietnamese regiments for the hills along the border, ending with the assault on Hill 875 on Thanksgiving Day. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Read the history
Also on Panel 30E, Line 15
- LESLIE JOHN HAUERColonel · July 31, 1967
- JOHN WATTS DRINKHOUSEPetty Officer Third Class · November 18, 1967
- RAYMOND GARCIA JRPrivate First Class · November 18, 1967
- ROBERT ALLEN HARTWELLSergeant · November 18, 1967
Same unit, same day
- DOUGLAS BRUCE BAUMSergeant · Panel 30E, Line 13
- SAMUEL LEE CARMICHAELPrivate First Class · Panel 30E, Line 14
- WILLIAM ANDERSON COLLINSSergeant First Class · Panel 30E, Line 14
- MICHAEL ANDREW CRABTREECaptain · Panel 30E, Line 14
- RAYMOND GARCIA JRPrivate First Class · Panel 30E, Line 15
- RICHARD DALE MCGHEECorporal · Panel 30E, Line 17
- DOUGLAS GRAHAM MAGRUDERFirst Lieutenant · Panel 30E, Line 18
- THOMAS JAY RILEYSpecialist Four · Panel 30E, Line 18
- CHARLES HARVEY ROBINSONCorporal · Panel 30E, Line 19
- IGNACIO TORRES JRSergeant · Panel 30E, Line 20
- LEONARD B WASHINGTON JRPrivate First Class · Panel 30E, Line 20
- HARRY CONARD WILSON IISpecialist Four · Panel 30E, Line 21
From Pittsburgh
- CLEVELAND WILLIAM GORDONMajor · January 7, 1964
- THEODORE ALAN WINOWITCHPrivate First Class · December 30, 1964
- CHARLES FREDRICK CLYDESDALELieutenant (junior grade) · March 15, 1965
- WILLIAM DONAVAN BENNINGStaff Sergeant · May 11, 1965
- FRANK HUFFORD BLANKSergeant · August 18, 1965
- JOHN L JEMISONPrivate First Class · August 18, 1965
- FRANK JOSEPH NADANY JRSergeant First Class · October 31, 1965
- RUSSELL EARL HAMMONDSergeant First Class · November 5, 1965
- HARRY FRANCIS JEDRZEJEWSKIPlatoon Sergeant · November 17, 1965
- RONALD JOSEPH LOERLEINSergeant · November 25, 1965
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.