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TERRENCE GLADE DIXON
Corporal · U.S. Army
December 25, 1945 – April 8, 1967
Service recordTerrence Glade Dixon, of St Petersburg, Florida, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Army. He died on April 8, 1967, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 17E, Line 121 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 17E · Line 121
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Corporal (CPL)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- December 25, 1945
- Home of record
- St Petersburg, Florida (Pinellas County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 8, 1967
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
56 names on the Wall carry the date April 8, 1967; six of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In April 1967, 887 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 25 of its members that month.
He died in Tây Ninh Province while Operation Junction City was under way. Operation Junction City (22 February–14 May 1967), in War Zone C along the Cambodian border, was the largest U.S. operation of the war to that time and included the only major American combat parachute assault of the war. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 17E, Line 121
- ROGER DALE COOPERSergeant · April 8, 1967
- TERRY LEE ELLENDERCorporal · April 8, 1967
- JAY FRANKLIN GEYERSpecialist Four · April 8, 1967
- DAVID PARKER GIBSONCaptain · April 8, 1967
- FRANCISCO ANDREW MONTANOLance Corporal · April 8, 1967
Same unit, same day
- FELIX F F LEYVA-PARRA-FRIASPrivate First Class · Panel 17E, Line 125
- DON LESLIE MICHAELSpecialist Four · Panel 17E, Line 125
- ALBERT MARSHALL GUYERFirst Lieutenant · Panel 17E, Line 126
- HIGINIO OVALLE OVIEDOPrivate First Class · Panel 17E, Line 127
- ROBERT THOMPSON JRPrivate First Class · Panel 18E, Line 1
From St Petersburg
- PETER R COYMANStaff Sergeant · April 24, 1965
- JOHNIE KING CULBREATHSpecialist Four · May 11, 1965
- JAMES WILLIAM BARKSDALESergeant · November 6, 1965
- ARTHUR R MOODY IIISergeant · November 17, 1965
- WILLARD FRANCIS ELDERSergeant · December 27, 1965
- ROBERT CARLOS BOWMANSergeant · January 25, 1966
- MICHAEL THOMAS MURPHYPrivate First Class · June 10, 1966
- JOHN THOMAS DEMALINESergeant · August 30, 1966
- DAVID YOUNGSpecialist Four · January 7, 1967
- LAWRENCE CHRISTIAN CLAUSENSpecialist Four · February 15, 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.