WWII · Battle Death Record
Albert Dewey
Lieutenant Colonel, U.S. Army · Illinois
Personnel File — Core Information
- Name
- Albert Dewey
- Entered the Service From
- Illinois
- Rank
- Lieutenant Colonel
- Service
- U.S. Army
- Unit / Regiment
- Office of Strategic Services (OSS)
- War
- WWII
- Date of Death
- September 26, 1945
- Awards
- Silver Star, Legion of Merit, Croix de Guerre avec Palmes, Chevalier de la Legion d'honneur
- Burial / Memorial
- Commemorated on the Tablets of the Missing, Manila American Cemetery and Memorial
- Grave
- Tablets of the Missing
Their story
Lt. Col. Albert Peter Dewey was an OSS officer who led a seven-man team into Saigon in September 1945 to locate missing American airmen and POWs and gather intelligence in French Indochina. On September 26, 1945, he was shot and killed at a Viet Minh roadblock, becoming the first American killed in Vietnam; his body was never recovered. He is memorialized on the Tablets of the Missing at Manila American Cemetery.
Compiled from American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC) and National Archives (NARA) records and public sources.
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