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MICHAEL EDWARD DUNN
Lieutenant Commander · U.S. Navy
July 6, 1941 – January 26, 1968
Service recordMichael Edward Dunn, of Naperville, Illinois, served as a Lieutenant Commander in the U.S. Navy. He was lost on January 26, 1968, in North Vietnam, and was later declared dead. His name is inscribed on Panel 35E, Line 38 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 35E · Line 38
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. Navy
- Rank
- Lieutenant Commander (LCDR)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Url Naval Flight Officer (1320)
- Unit (as recorded)
- VA 165
- Born
- July 6, 1941
- Home of record
- Naperville, Illinois (Du Page County)
Casualty
- Date of loss
- January 26, 1968
- Country
- North Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Declared Dead
- Circumstance
- Aircraft Crash — crew
- First reported
- Missing in action
Context · from the records
What was happening
33 names on the Wall carry the date January 26, 1968. In January 1968, 1,546 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “VA 165”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
He died in North Vietnam while Operation Rolling Thunder was under way. Operation Rolling Thunder (March 1965–November 1968) was the sustained U.S. bombing campaign against North Vietnam, flown by Air Force fighter-bombers from Thailand and Navy aircraft from carriers in the Gulf of Tonkin against some of the densest air defenses in the world.
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.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 35E, Line 38
- DWIGHT THOMAS DENNINGPrivate First Class · January 26, 1968
- PAUL DAVID EKARTPetty Officer Third Class · January 26, 1968
- ROBERT DON FAIRESSpecialist Four · January 26, 1968
- GARY NEIL FOSTERPrivate First Class · January 26, 1968
Same unit, same day
- NORMAN EDWARD EIDSMOECaptain · Panel 35E, Line 39
From Naperville
- CHRISTOPHER WAYNE BEAVERSPrivate First Class · May 18, 1967
- JOHN CHARLES LUEBKE JRSpecialist Four · July 24, 1968
- RONALD MICHAEL NOWAKPrivate First Class · February 18, 1969
- DEAN WARD MOEHRINGSergeant · March 3, 1969
- DONALD JOHN PORTERFirst Lieutenant · June 2, 1969
- WALTER JOSEPH GUTOWSKICaptain · August 5, 1969
- JAY CHARLES SACKSCorporal · August 14, 1969
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.