some consider an OSS officer, Dewey, the first American Casualty of the VN war.
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I was told back in the late 60’s, that it was a member of the Army Security Agency.
ThanQ.
I had to look all that up,
you are correct...until they started changing the date of the start of the Vietnam war, for purposes of being on the Vietnam Memorial Wall.
Dewey was killed in 1945. Some have been trying to get him on the Wall since forever.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._Peter_Dewey
The U.S. eventually declared the Vietnam war started in 1955 for “wall” purposes.
Most of the info is here - interesting read how the start date of the Vietnam war changed(check out the “Recognition” section):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_B._Fitzgibbon_Jr.
Thanx again.