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WILLIAM CHARLES DIMAGARD
First Lieutenant · U.S. Army
March 31, 1945 – March 28, 1968
Service recordWilliam Charles Dimagard, of Euclid, Ohio, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on March 28, 1968, in Dinh Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 46E, Line 53 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 46E · Line 53
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- First Lieutenant (1LT)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- March 31, 1945
- Home of record
- Euclid, Ohio (Cuyahoga County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 28, 1968
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Dinh Tuong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
45 names on the Wall carry the date March 28, 1968; two of them were lost in Định Tường Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 101 of its members that month.
He died in Định Tường Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Also on Panel 46E, Line 53
- GEORGE RONALD BROWNSergeant Major · March 28, 1968
- GEORGE PHILIP DESMARAISPrivate First Class · March 28, 1968
- RAYMOND CHARLES DOWNINSpecialist Four · March 28, 1968
- LEE MATHEWS LAMBERTSergeant · March 28, 1968
Same unit, same day
- BERNARD MCKINLEY RICHARDSONCorporal · Panel 46E, Line 58
- JOHN THOMAS SUMMERS IIICorporal · Panel 46E, Line 60
From Euclid
- RAYMOND MICHAEL CHASSERPrivate First Class · May 15, 1967
- LLOYD ANDREW SELLERS IIISpecialist Four · June 19, 1967
- JAMES LAWRENCE BLASKISSeaman · July 29, 1967
- LAWRENCE GEORGE STAPLETONSpecialist Four · August 4, 1967
- WILLIAM EARL WILSONSergeant · September 29, 1967
- ROBERT EDWARD MURPHY JRPrivate First Class · January 1, 1968
- ALLEN JOHN PRETNARCorporal · August 8, 1968
- JAMES EDWARD LOTHMANSpecialist Four · October 4, 1968
- DAVID ALAN GAUCHLance Corporal · January 14, 1969
- THOMAS M FITZPATRICKSpecialist Four · April 18, 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.