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DAVE EDWARD ASHFORD
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
May 7, 1938 – December 19, 1967
Service recordDave Edward Ashford, of Detroit, Michigan, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on December 19, 1967, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 29. His name is inscribed on Panel 32E, Line 19 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 32E · Line 19
Names are inscribed in the order of loss, starting at Panel 1E at the apex and ending at Panel 1W. At the Memorial, find the panel number at the base and count down from the top line.
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Sergeant First Class (SFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- May 7, 1938
- Home of record
- Detroit, Michigan (Wayne County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 19, 1967
- Age
- 29
- Province
- Binh Duong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
48 names on the Wall carry the date December 19, 1967; 19 of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In December 1967, 937 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 106 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 32E, Line 19
- MICHAEL PATRICK RUANESecond Lieutenant · December 18, 1967
- DENNIS LEON SENZLance Corporal · December 18, 1967
- LARRY DUANE TRAASETHLance Corporal · December 18, 1967
- BENNIE ALSTONPrivate First Class · December 19, 1967
Same unit, same day
- GEORGE PEYTON COLANGELOPrivate First Class · Panel 32E, Line 21
- JERRY LEE NATIONSSecond Lieutenant · Panel 32E, Line 26
- WINSTON ADAMS TAGGARTSpecialist Four · Panel 32E, Line 28
From Detroit
- SAMUEL EUGENE HURDAirman Third Class · January 3, 1964
- LEO BERT ABRAMOSKICaptain · July 28, 1964
- GEORGE PAUL ZUPANCICCorporal · June 26, 1965
- MARSHALL DANIEL HOLMANPrivate First Class · July 9, 1965
- ELIAS BELL JRCorporal · July 13, 1965
- ARTHUR F HAMMARSTROM JRLieutenant Colonel · July 24, 1965
- JAMES THOMAS CLARKPrivate · August 17, 1965
- BRUCE JAMES HENRICHPrivate First Class · August 18, 1965
- ROBERT TAGLIONESergeant · August 18, 1965
- MERRILL LAGENE LANTRYCorporal · September 2, 1965
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.