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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Llewellyn Paul Dickenson.

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LLEWELLYN PAUL DICKENSON

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

May 31, 1948 – May 3, 1969

Service record

Llewellyn Paul Dickenson, of Neopit, Wisconsin, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on May 3, 1969, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 26W, Line 106 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 26W · Line 106

Position of Panel 26W 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. Army
Rank
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
25 INF DIV
Born
May 31, 1948
Home of record
Neopit, Wisconsin (Menominee County)

Casualty

Date of death
May 3, 1969
Age
20
Province
Binh Duong
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Grenade

Context · from the records

What was happening

21 names on the Wall carry the date May 3, 1969; he was the only one lost in Bình Dương Province that day. In May 1969, 1,456 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 66 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 26W, Line 106

From Neopit

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.