Dahill, Douglas Edward
Army Sergeant 1st class

Douglas Edward Dahill, age 20, from Lima, Ohio, Allen county.

Service era: Vietnam

Date of death: Thursday, April 17, 1969
Death details: On September 16, 2010, the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC, now DPAA) identified the remains of Sergeant First Class Douglas Edward Dahill, missing from the Vietnam War. Sergeant First Class Dahill joined the U.S. Army from Ohio and was a member of the 5th Special Forces Group. On April 17, 1969, he was a part of a long-range reconnaissance patrol in Quang Nam Province, Vietnam. The patrol was ambused by enemy forces, and thunderstorms in the area prevented air support from reaching the recon team. Search teams surveying the area the next day found no sign of the patrol members. After the war, joint U.S./Vietnamese investigators excavated the site associated with the ambush and recovered human remains. In 2010, modern forensic techniques allowed for the identification of SFC Dahill from among the recovered remains.

Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, findagrave.com