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JOSEPH JAMES DOBYNES
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
May 15, 1945 – March 27, 1969
Service recordJoseph James Dobynes, of Marion, Alabama, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on March 27, 1969, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 28W, Line 59 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 28W · Line 59
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
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 5 INF DIV MECH
- Born
- May 15, 1945
- Home of record
- Marion, Alabama (Perry County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 27, 1969
- Age
- 23
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
47 names on the Wall carry the date March 27, 1969; three of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In March 1969, 1,553 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “5 INF DIV MECH”, his unit in the record, lost 31 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 28W, Line 59
- RAYMOND GEORGE CZERWIECStaff Sergeant · March 27, 1969
- THOMAS WYATT DURHAMPrivate First Class · March 27, 1969
- VICENTE T ESPINOSASergeant · March 27, 1969
- ROBERT DILLON EVANSPrivate First Class · March 27, 1969
Same unit, same day
- ROBERT LEE ANGLINSpecialist Four · Panel 28W, Line 56
- DIMITRIOS G ARNIOTISSpecialist Four · Panel 28W, Line 56
- RENE ALDO BULLERPrivate First Class · Panel 28W, Line 57
- WILLIAM DEBRECE CODYFirst Lieutenant · Panel 28W, Line 57
- EVERETT T CULPPrivate First Class · Panel 28W, Line 58
- LOUIS KRIMMIT DIXONSergeant · Panel 28W, Line 58
- DAVID ELWOOD FLANNERYSpecialist Four · Panel 28W, Line 60
- LEONARD CLARENCE IVY JRPrivate First Class · Panel 28W, Line 60
- OSCAR GIBSON JOHNSON JRPrivate First Class · Panel 28W, Line 61
- ALLISON WAYNE LOCKLAIRSpecialist Four · Panel 28W, Line 61
- BOBBY JOE WALTERSSpecialist Four · Panel 28W, Line 64
- LESLIE WAYNE WORLSpecialist Four · Panel 28W, Line 65
From Marion
- ABRAHAM WOODSPrivate First Class · September 24, 1967
- THOMAS FRANKLIN CREWSStaff Sergeant · May 6, 1968
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.