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RICHARD LESTER DENNIS
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
April 3, 1929 – December 8, 1967
Service recordRichard Lester Dennis, of Smelterville, Idaho, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on December 8, 1967, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 38. His name is inscribed on Panel 31E, Line 63 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 31E · Line 63
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 First Class (SFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Vehicle Materiel Supply Specialist (76S)
- Born
- April 3, 1929
- Home of record
- Smelterville, Idaho (Shoshone County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 8, 1967
- Age
- 38
- Province
- Binh Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Vehicle Crash (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
27 names on the Wall carry the date December 8, 1967; four of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In December 1967, 937 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 31E, Line 63
- KENNETH ROGER BENJAMINSpecialist Four · December 8, 1967
- LARRY HUTTON BOWERSSpecialist Four · December 8, 1967
- HUBERT CLAYTON CARTERPlatoon Sergeant · December 8, 1967
- MARK JAMES CULLENPrivate First Class · December 8, 1967
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.