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WILLIAM CARL DABBERT
Private First Class · U.S. Army
March 14, 1946 – June 28, 1969
Service recordWilliam Carl Dabbert, of Arlington Heights, Illinois, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on June 28, 1969, in Hua Nghia Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 21W, Line 28 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 21W · Line 28
Names are inscribed in the order of loss, starting at Panel 1E at the apex and ending at Panel 1W. At the Memorial, find the panel number at the base and count down from the top line.
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- March 14, 1946
- Home of record
- Arlington Heights, Illinois (Cook County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 28, 1969
- Age
- 23
- Province
- Hua Nghia
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
16 names on the Wall carry the date June 28, 1969; two of them were lost in Hua Nghia Province. In June 1969, 1,246 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 122 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 21W, Line 28
- ROGER DALE JENSENSergeant · June 28, 1969
- PATRICK BENJAMIN KEMPKERSpecialist Four · June 28, 1969
- EMERY LOUIS KORELSpecialist Four · June 28, 1969
- VICTOR MUNOZ ROMANSpecialist Four · June 28, 1969
Same unit, same day
- STEVEN LAVELLE MCGINNISPrivate First Class · Panel 21W, Line 29
From Arlington Heights
- SAMMY LOWELL HARTZELLPrivate First Class · March 11, 1966
- ROBERT ERLE BARDACHPetty Officer Second Class · October 14, 1967
- DANIEL RICHARD SCHUERENCaptain · February 25, 1968
- HARRY LEE CRAIGLance Corporal · May 18, 1968
- DOUGLAS DEAN VAUGHANLieutenant (junior grade) · May 20, 1969
- MICHAEL R BLANCHFIELDSpecialist Four · July 3, 1969
- DONALD ALAN CLARBOURSpecialist Four · November 6, 1969
- SCOTT NELSON JACOBSONPrivate · February 27, 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.