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RICHARD LEE DIXON
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
July 15, 1948 – January 16, 1969
Service recordRichard Lee Dixon, of Reddick, Illinois, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on January 16, 1969, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 34W, Line 14 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 34W · Line 14
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
- Combat Engineer (12B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- July 15, 1948
- Home of record
- Reddick, Illinois (Kankakee County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 16, 1969
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
34 names on the Wall carry the date January 16, 1969; five of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In January 1969, 985 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 84 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 34W, Line 14
- ROBERT DALE ARMSTRONGLance Corporal · January 16, 1969
- JOHN CLAUD DEATONSpecialist Five · January 16, 1969
- PAUL ROBERT DEWSpecialist Four · January 16, 1969
- JUAN VARGAS ESTRADACorporal · January 16, 1969
Same unit, same day
- JAMES HENRY DIECKMANPrivate First Class · Panel 34W, Line 12
- GIUSEPPE MAGRIFirst Lieutenant · Panel 34W, Line 15
- DAVID JAMES RIDEOUTSergeant · Panel 34W, Line 17
- STEVEN ROBERT ROWLESSpecialist Four · Panel 34W, Line 18
- RANDALL JAMES WICKLACESpecialist Four · Panel 34W, Line 19
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.