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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault.
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Mack Dennard JR.

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MACK DENNARD JR

Sergeant · U.S. Army

October 22, 1947 – September 18, 1969

Service record

Mack Dennard JR, of Key West, Florida, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on September 18, 1969, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 18W, Line 109 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 18W · Line 109

Position of Panel 18W 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
Sergeant (SGT)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Infantry Operations And Intelligence Specialist (11F)
Unit (as recorded)
25 INF DIV
Born
October 22, 1947
Home of record
Key West, Florida (Monroe County)

Casualty

Date of death
September 18, 1969
Age
21
Province
Tay Ninh
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Vehicle Crash (MC)

Context · from the records

What was happening

21 names on the Wall carry the date September 18, 1969; he was the only one lost in Tây Ninh Province that day. In September 1969, 664 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

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

Also on Panel 18W, Line 109

From Key West

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.