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Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966.
Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966. Photo: SP5 Charles V. Hoover, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Wayland Dunn JR.

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WAYLAND DUNN JR

Sergeant · U.S. Army

October 30, 1926 – August 14, 1966

Service record

Wayland Dunn JR, of Raleigh, North Carolina, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on August 14, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 39. His name is inscribed on Panel 10E, Line 3 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 10E · Line 3

Position of Panel 10E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Sergeant (SGT)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
Born
October 30, 1926
Home of record
Raleigh, North Carolina (Wake County)

Casualty

Date of death
August 14, 1966
Age
39
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

15 names on the Wall carry the date August 14, 1966. In August 1966, 501 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 98 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 10E, Line 3

Same unit, same day

From Raleigh

All 48 names from Raleigh →

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.