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WILLIAM LORANCE DENT
First Lieutenant · U.S. Army
February 4, 1947 – March 21, 1969
Service recordWilliam Lorance Dent, of Hillsborough, North Carolina, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on March 21, 1969, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 29W, Line 97 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 29W · Line 97
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
- First Lieutenant (1LT)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Infantry Unit Commander (1542)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- February 4, 1947
- Home of record
- Hillsborough, North Carolina (Orange County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 21, 1969
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
83 names on the Wall carry the date March 21, 1969; four of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In March 1969, 1,553 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 71 of its members that month.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 29W, Line 97
- RONALD SANDERS COLSONSpecialist Four · March 21, 1969
- ROBERT ALAN DALTONFirst Lieutenant · March 21, 1969
- ROBERT SCOTT DAVISSpecialist Four · March 21, 1969
- JOE EDDIE DEMERSONPrivate First Class · March 21, 1969
Same unit, same day
- WALTER TARVER BRYANTPrivate First Class · Panel 29W, Line 96
- JOHNNY LAWRENCE EDWARDSSpecialist Four · Panel 29W, Line 99
- MIGUEL ANGEL RIVERASpecialist Four · Panel 28W, Line 2
- RONNIE RUDOLPH WHITECorporal · Panel 28W, Line 6
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.