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DARRELL JAMES DEPRIEST
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
May 29, 1947 – May 16, 1968
Service recordDarrell James Depriest, of Abbeville, Mississippi, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on May 16, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 61E, Line 8 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 61E · Line 8
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
- Born
- May 29, 1947
- Home of record
- Abbeville, Mississippi (Lafayette County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 16, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
80 names on the Wall carry the date May 16, 1968; six of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 160 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 61E, Line 8
- VINCENT SAMSON COLESPrivate First Class · May 16, 1968
- STEPHEN EARL CRAWFORDPrivate First Class · May 16, 1968
- GERALD JOSEPH CROSSON JRMajor · May 16, 1968
- CLIFTON CUBBAGEPrivate First Class · May 16, 1968
Same unit, same day
- ELMER MASON NANCEFirst Lieutenant · Panel 61E, Line 15
- JEROME JOHN PEDICONEPrivate First Class · Panel 61E, Line 16
Source. U.S. Department of Defense, Defense Casualty Analysis System, Vietnam Conflict Extract Data File (as of April 29, 2008), Records of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Record Group 330, National Archives (NAID 2240992). Panel and line as recorded in that file. This page presents the official record and its historical context; no biography has been written for him yet. See something wrong? Report a correction.