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An airman lights a candle during POW/MIA recognition week at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, North Carolina. Photo: A1C Aaron Jenne, U.S. Air Force, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Joseph Patrick Dunn.

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JOSEPH PATRICK DUNN

Commander · U.S. Navy

September 17, 1942 – February 14, 1968

Service record

Joseph Patrick Dunn, of Hull, Massachusetts, served as a Commander in the U.S. Navy. He was lost on February 14, 1968, in China, and was later declared dead. His name is inscribed on Panel 39E, Line 31 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 39E · Line 31

Position of Panel 39E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Navy
Rank
Commander (CDR)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Occupation
Url Pilot (1315)
Unit (as recorded)
VA 25 USS CORAL SEA CVA 43
Born
September 17, 1942
Home of record
Hull, Massachusetts (Plymouth County)

Casualty

Date of loss
February 14, 1968
Country
China
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Declared Dead
Circumstance
Aircraft Crash — crew
First reported
Missing in action
Remains
Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record

Context · from the records

What was happening

71 names on the Wall carry the date February 14, 1968. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The record places this loss in China, outside South Vietnam.

His remains had not been recovered when the 2008 record was compiled. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency continues to search for Americans still missing from the war; families can find case information through dpaa.mil.

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From Hull

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.