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RANDALL DAVID DALTON
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
December 7, 1950 – July 24, 1971
Service recordRandall David Dalton, of Collinsville, Illinois, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on July 24, 1971, in Cambodia, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 3W, Line 113 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 3W · Line 113
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Aircraft Maintenance Apprentice (67A)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 AVN BDE
- Born
- December 7, 1950
- Home of record
- Collinsville, Illinois (Madison County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- July 24, 1971
- Age
- 20
- Country
- Cambodia
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
- Remains
- Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record
Context · from the records
What was happening
Eight names on the Wall carry the date July 24, 1971. In July 1971, 118 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Aviation Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 14 of its members that month.
The record places this loss in Cambodia, 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.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 3W, Line 113
- RONALD NELIONAL GOODWINSpecialist Four · July 24, 1971
- STEPHEN ELLIS SLOCUMSpecialist Four · July 24, 1971
- MARVIN BLAIR STUART JRSpecialist Four · July 24, 1971
- CHARLES RICKEY HARRISSergeant · July 25, 1971
Same unit, same day
- GREGORY ALFRED ANTUNANOSergeant · Panel 3W, Line 114
From Collinsville
- CHARLES BERNARD LANKFORDStaff Sergeant · October 24, 1963
- ROBERT WILCOX MOODYPrivate First Class · September 16, 1966
- ADAM EDWARD WERSCHINGSergeant · March 2, 1967
- RICHARD LYNN MOOREPrivate First Class · May 17, 1967
- NORMAN EUGENE THOMASStaff Sergeant · February 24, 1968
- JERRY LEE DODSONLance Corporal · February 25, 1968
- DAVID K DEMATTEISPrivate First Class · March 2, 1968
- LUCKY GAYLEN WHITEPrivate First Class · April 29, 1968
- EDWARD MONROE SIMPSONSergeant · May 11, 1968
- ALVIN LEE EVANOFFSpecialist Four · December 6, 1970
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.