A. Peter Dewey
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[1]Apparently mistaken for a Frenchman, A. Peter Dewey was gunned down by Viet Minh troops in September, 1945, as he was driving a jeep to the airport.
Dewey thus became the first American killed in what would come to be called the Vietnam Era.
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