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WILLIAM EARL DENNIS
Lieutenant · U.S. Navy
October 30, 1935 – June 21, 1968
Service recordWilliam Earl Dennis, of Birmingham, Alabama, served as a Lieutenant in the U.S. Navy. He died on June 21, 1968, in Dinh Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 32. His name is inscribed on Panel 55W, Line 12 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 55W · Line 12
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. Navy
- Rank
- Lieutenant (LT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Url No Warfare Specialty (1100)
- Unit (as recorded)
- COMNAVSUPPACT SGN DET YRBM 18
- Born
- October 30, 1935
- Home of record
- Birmingham, Alabama (Jefferson County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 21, 1968
- Age
- 32
- Province
- Dinh Tuong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
31 names on the Wall carry the date June 21, 1968; four of them were lost in Định Tường Province. In June 1968, 1,257 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “COMNAVSUPPACT SGN DET YRBM 18”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 55W, Line 12
- ROOSEVELT CLARKSergeant First Class · June 21, 1968
- SCOTT CLAYMON DELPHPetty Officer First Class · June 21, 1968
- KENNETH ROBERT ESCOTTPrivate First Class · June 21, 1968
- TERRY LEE FETZERCorporal · June 21, 1968
Same unit, same day
- SCOTT CLAYMON DELPHPetty Officer First Class · Panel 55W, Line 12
From Birmingham
- SHERMAN ELLIOT WILLIAMSSpecialist Five · July 9, 1965
- CARL WILLIAM MANNPrivate First Class · September 21, 1965
- ROBERT WARREN ALLENPrivate First Class · October 3, 1965
- GENE WILLIAM WILLIAMSSpecialist Five · October 12, 1965
- JAMES J HOWARDSpecialist Five · November 1, 1965
- CLEO LOCKETTCorporal · November 8, 1965
- HAROLD JAMES BATTLEPrivate First Class · November 12, 1965
- HAROLD EUGENE WATKINSLance Corporal · November 12, 1965
- CHARLES WILLIAM STOREYStaff Sergeant · November 17, 1965
- RICHARD EARL HARPERSpecialist Four · January 12, 1966
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.