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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 William Dale Nixon.

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WILLIAM DALE NIXON

Captain · U.S. Army

October 15, 1939 – May 8, 1968

Service record

William Dale Nixon, of Mulberry, Arkansas, served as a Captain in the U.S. Army. He died on May 8, 1968, in Chau Doc Province, South Vietnam, at age 28. His name is inscribed on Panel 57E, Line 7 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 57E · Line 7

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Captain (CPT)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Unit (as recorded)
C TRP 7 SQD 1 CAV 1 AVN BDE
Born
October 15, 1939
Home of record
Mulberry, Arkansas (Crawford County)

Casualty

Date of death
May 8, 1968
Age
28
Province
Chau Doc
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

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78 names on the Wall carry the date May 8, 1968; he was the only one lost in Chau Doc Province that day. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

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From Mulberry

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.