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WILLIAM MEARL DEAN
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
June 14, 1933 – August 14, 1964
Service recordWilliam Mearl Dean, of Delavan, Illinois, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on August 14, 1964, in South Vietnam, at age 31. His name is inscribed on Panel 1E, Line 61 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 1E · Line 61
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Sergeant First Class (SFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- June 14, 1933
- Home of record
- Delavan, Illinois (Tazewell County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 14, 1964
- Age
- 31
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
Two names on the Wall carry the date August 14, 1964. In August 1964, 17 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 4 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 1E, Line 61
- LEONARD LEE KASTERFirst Lieutenant · August 6, 1964
- HAROLD LOYD MCNEILFirst Lieutenant · August 12, 1964
- JAMES EDWARD CAUGHEYSpecialist Four · August 14, 1964
- WILFRID NARCISS BOURGEOISStaff Sergeant · August 17, 1964
From Delavan
- JERRY EUGENE METCALFLance Corporal · June 15, 1967
- JOHN FRANKLIN PAYNEPetty Officer Third Class · May 10, 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.