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WILLIAM FLOYD DACUS
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
November 4, 1950 – April 25, 1970
Service recordWilliam Floyd Dacus, of Bono, Arkansas, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on April 25, 1970, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 11W, Line 49 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 11W · Line 49
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
- Specialist Five (SP5)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Heavy Construction Equipment Operator (62E)
- Unit (as recorded)
- B CO 554 ENG BN 79 ENG GRP 20 ENG BDE
- Born
- November 4, 1950
- Home of record
- Bono, Arkansas (Craighead County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 25, 1970
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Binh Duong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
28 names on the Wall carry the date April 25, 1970; seven of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In April 1970, 730 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “B CO 554 ENG BN 79 ENG GRP 20 ENG BDE”, his unit in the record, lost 3 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 11W, Line 49
- JAMES THADDEUS CONWAYSpecialist Six · April 25, 1970
- JEFFREY BRUNS DODGESpecialist Five · April 25, 1970
- DAVID JOHN ELLEFSONLance Corporal · April 25, 1970
- DOUGLAS P MCCORKLE JRSpecialist Four · April 25, 1970
Same unit, same day
- JEFFREY BRUNS DODGESpecialist Five · Panel 11W, Line 49
- DOUGLAS P MCCORKLE JRSpecialist Four · Panel 11W, Line 49
From Bono
- JACKIE DWAYNE HAMBYSergeant · July 28, 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.