Rank: Specialist 4
Unit: 33rd Chemical Detachment, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment
MOS: 54E – Nuclear, Biological, And Chemical (NBC) Specialist
Awards: Purple Heart Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster, Air Medal, Army Commendation Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Vietnam Service Medal, Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal
Unit awards: Valorous Unit Award, Vietnamese Gallantry Cross with Palm device
Note: UH-1H, Tail # 68-16387, Crew Member
Enlisted by: Regular
Date of birth: 20-Oct-1948
Hometown: Normanna, Texas
Marital status: Never Married
Campaign: Vietnam Conflict
Start of tour: 11-Nov-1969
Incident date: 12-Apr-1970
Date of casualty: 6-May-1970
Age at death: 21
Cause of death: Hostile, died of wounds. Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC). Aircraft loss, crash not at sea.
Dionicio G. Carrizales died as a result of burns received while a passenger on a military aircraft on a combat operation when the aircraft was fired upon by a hostile ground force, crashed and burned. He was admitted to a military medical facility and later expired. / Passenger on UH-1H on sniffer mission. Aircraft hit by hostile ground fire. Aircraft crashed and burned. Individual admitted to 93d Evacuation Hospital on 12 Apr 1970 at 1135 hrs and placed on Serious Injured (SI) list on 12 Apr 1970 at 1530 hrs.
Four Blackhorse troopers died as a result of this incident:
CPT George Hartwell Adams
CPT James Mitchell Atchison
SP4 Dionicio G. Carrizales
SP4 Cleve Davis Miller
Location of fatality: Tay Ninh, South Vietnam, , XT 570 864
Place of interment: Tuleta Cemetery, Tuleta, Texas, USA
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