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TONY DEDMAN
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
February 14, 1944 – May 17, 1966
Service recordTony Dedman, of La Grange, Illinois, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on May 17, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 7E, Line 69 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 7E · Line 69
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- February 14, 1944
- Home of record
- La Grange, Illinois (Cook County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 17, 1966
- Age
- 22
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
62 names on the Wall carry the date May 17, 1966. In May 1966, 595 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 23 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 7E, Line 69
- LORING WILLIAM CARPER JRHospitalman · May 17, 1966
- EARL GLENN CLARKPrivate First Class · May 17, 1966
- DONALD THORPE DEERESpecialist Five · May 17, 1966
- KENNETH EUGENE DUNCANPrivate First Class · May 17, 1966
Same unit, same day
- ARTIS WESLEY ANDERSONPrivate First Class · Panel 7E, Line 66
- RICHARD WILLIAM BULLOCKPrivate First Class · Panel 7E, Line 68
- WALTER L BURROUGHSPrivate First Class · Panel 7E, Line 68
- KENNETH EUGENE DUNCANPrivate First Class · Panel 7E, Line 69
- FELIX ESPARZA JRPrivate First Class · Panel 7E, Line 70
- ALLEN MORGAN GARRETTPrivate · Panel 7E, Line 71
- EDWARD HAMILTONSergeant · Panel 7E, Line 71
- JOHNNY HARRISONPrivate First Class · Panel 7E, Line 71
- RICHARD MICHAEL PATRICKSpecialist Four · Panel 7E, Line 74
- WILLIAM E WALTERSSergeant · Panel 7E, Line 77
- JIMMY LAVERNE WILLIAMSPrivate First Class · Panel 7E, Line 78
From La Grange
- MICHAEL PATRICK REILLYSpecialist Four · February 15, 1967
- MICHAEL PETER GETLINCaptain · March 30, 1967
- WILLIAM JEROME CLARK IIIMajor · November 30, 1967
- JOHN HARRISON BRANCATO JRPrivate First Class · February 7, 1968
- GEORGE BOTESPrivate First Class · May 19, 1968
- JAMES CRAIG MCPHILLIPSLance Corporal · October 24, 1969
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.