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WILLIAM EDWARD DEAN
Private First Class · U.S. Army
March 13, 1949 – March 13, 1968
Service recordWilliam Edward Dean, of London, Ohio, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on March 13, 1968, in Pleiku Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 44E, Line 34 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 44E · Line 34
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Pioneer (12A)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 509 ENG CO 937 ENG GRP 18 ENG BDE
- Born
- March 13, 1949
- Home of record
- London, Ohio (Madison County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 13, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Pleiku
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
57 names on the Wall carry the date March 13, 1968; 14 of them were lost in Pleiku Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “509 ENG CO 937 ENG GRP 18 ENG BDE”, his unit in the record, lost 4 of its members that month.
He died in Pleiku 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 44E, Line 34
- EVERETT DAVISLance Corporal · March 13, 1968
- JIMMY LYNN DELANOLance Corporal · March 13, 1968
- DOUGLAS EDWARD DISHMANPrivate First Class · March 13, 1968
- FRANCIS JOSEPH DOWD JRPrivate First Class · March 13, 1968
Same unit, same day
- RAYMOND PAUL DOBRZYNSKISpecialist Four · Panel 44E, Line 35
- WILLIAM JAMES HONDELSecond Lieutenant · Panel 44E, Line 37
- LARRY DEE SHERMANSpecialist Four · Panel 44E, Line 41
From London
- THOMAS EDWARD BURLILESpecialist Four · November 15, 1965
- RONALD EUGENE HARRISONPrivate First Class · May 18, 1966
- JOSEPH GENE GREGGPrivate First Class · November 19, 1967
- JOHN EDWARD THIELSpecialist Four · December 8, 1967
- LARRY DEAN RIPLEYCorporal · February 7, 1968
- JAMES KERMIT PARKSPrivate First Class · November 28, 1968
- THOMAS WILLENE JOHNSONPrivate First Class · July 4, 1969
- ROBERT CRAIN PHLEGERSergeant · May 7, 1970
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.