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SIMON DEAN JR
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
March 8, 1943 – April 29, 1969
Service recordSimon Dean JR, of Somerville, Tennessee, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on April 29, 1969, in Chau Doc Province, South Vietnam, at age 26. His name is inscribed on Panel 26W, Line 76 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 26W · Line 76
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Radio Operator (05B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- March 8, 1943
- Home of record
- Somerville, Tennessee (Fayette County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 29, 1969
- Age
- 26
- Province
- Chau Doc
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
27 names on the Wall carry the date April 29, 1969; he was the only one lost in Chau Doc Province that day. In April 1969, 1,023 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 57 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 26W, Line 76
- NICHOLAS LEANDER FRANZERSpecialist Four · April 27, 1969
- BERT MORRIS ADAMS IIICorporal · April 29, 1969
- PAUL ANDREW BROUSESergeant · April 29, 1969
- JAMES WILLIAM CLEARYPrivate First Class · April 29, 1969
- MARK HANNAY DIXONPrivate First Class · April 29, 1969
Same unit, same day
- PAUL ANDREW BROUSESergeant · Panel 26W, Line 76
- JAMES WILLIAM CLEARYPrivate First Class · Panel 26W, Line 76
- LESTER EARL DOWNINGPrivate First Class · Panel 26W, Line 77
- DANIEL EDWARD FECKSpecialist Four · Panel 26W, Line 77
- ROBERT MORRIS FLANIGANSpecialist Four · Panel 26W, Line 77
- WALLACE JEROME MOSLEYPrivate First Class · Panel 26W, Line 78
From Somerville
- CHARLES TURNERSpecialist Four · April 20, 1972
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.