Dennis Irwin Pedersen

Specialist Four
A CO, 2ND BN, 18TH INFANTRY, 1 INF DIV
Army of the United States
31 March 1947 - 15 May 1968
Duluth, Minnesota
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1 INF DIV 18TH INF RGT
Combat Infantry

Purple Heart, National Defense, Vietnam Service, Vietnam Campaign
Dennis I. Pedersen

The database page for Dennis Irwin Pedersen

18 Sep 2004

REMEMBERED

by his niece,
Kerrie Adams
kerrie_loomis@yahoo.com


Dennis I. Pedersen - Senior Picture
Graduated from Morgan Park High School, Duluth, Minnesota
Class of 1965


A Company, 2nd Battalion, 18th Infantry, 1st Infantry Division
Group Photo in February of 1968
SP4 Pedersen is seated on the lower left with the rifle.


SP4 Dennis I. Pedersen with friends "Pineapple" and Steve in Di An.

Dennis I. Pedersen
SP4 Dennis I. Pedersen
Dearly loved and always remembered by his family and friends.

A Note from The Virtual Wall

On Wednesday 15 May 1968 Company A, 2/18th Infantry, was ambushed while conducting a reconnaissance operation near the village of Thu Duc on the outskirts of Saigon. The Company Commander, Captain Edmond J. Landers, and eight other men were killed in the action:
  • CPT Edmond J. Landers, Vacaville, CA (Commanding Officer)
  • SP4 Benjamin N. Goldberg, Baltimore, MD
  • SP4 Dennis I. Pedersen, Duluth, MN
  • SP4 Donald F. Vogel, Chicago, IL
  • SP4 Robert W. West, Huntington Beach, CA
  • PFC Stanley W. Behm, Escondido, CA (Medic, HHC/2/18 with A/2/18)
  • PFC Homer B. Bell, Tullahoma, TN
  • PFC Thomas W. Bishop, Bluffton, IN
  • PFC Thad B. Jessiman, Castro Valley, CA


The point-of-contact for this memorial is
his niece,
Kerrie Adams
kerrie_loomis@yahoo.com 
19 Sep 2004



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Jim Schueckler, former CW2, US Army
Ken Davis, Commander, United States Navy (Ret)
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