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UH-1 helicopters of the 1st Cavalry Division skim the coastline near Chu Lai, October 1967.
UH-1 helicopters of the 1st Cavalry Division skim the coastline near Chu Lai, October 1967. Photo: PFC Franklin G. Nickerson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Robert Alan Dalton.

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ROBERT ALAN DALTON

First Lieutenant · U.S. Army

March 6, 1947 – March 21, 1969

Service record

Robert Alan Dalton, of Parma, Ohio, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on March 21, 1969, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 29W, Line 97 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 29W · Line 97

Position of Panel 29W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
First Lieutenant (1LT)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Occupation
Air Observation Pilot (1981)
Unit (as recorded)
1 AVN BDE
Born
March 6, 1947
Home of record
Parma, Ohio (Cuyahoga County)

Casualty

Date of death
March 21, 1969
Age
22
Province
Binh Dinh
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Helicopter Crash — crew

Context · from the records

What was happening

83 names on the Wall carry the date March 21, 1969; four of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In March 1969, 1,553 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Aviation Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 44 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 29W, Line 97

Same unit, same day

From Parma

All 34 names from Parma →

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.