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DAVID ALICEA
Private First Class · U.S. Army
January 5, 1948 – August 29, 1968
Service recordDavid Alicea, of New York, New York, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on August 29, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 46W, Line 55 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 46W · Line 55
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 82 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- January 5, 1948
- Home of record
- New York, New York (Kings County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 29, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
54 names on the Wall carry the date August 29, 1968; 12 of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In August 1968, 1,313 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 82nd Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 24 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 46W, Line 55
- ROBERT JAMES WASHINGTONCorporal · August 28, 1968
- THOMAS VERNON WILLIAMS JRPrivate First Class · August 28, 1968
- RONALD EUGENE ADKINSPrivate First Class · August 29, 1968
- KERRY ALEXANDERPrivate First Class · August 29, 1968
Same unit, same day
- DANIEL JACQUES BOTTANPrivate First Class · Panel 46W, Line 56
- ALLEN SEVARN DUNBARPrivate First Class · Panel 46W, Line 57
- ROBERT CONROY PERRYPrivate First Class · Panel 46W, Line 57
- HOWARD JOHN HARTMANCorporal · Panel 46W, Line 60
- DAVID VERNON MCCOLLUMPrivate First Class · Panel 46W, Line 61
- ROBERT JAMES MCDONOUGHPrivate First Class · Panel 46W, Line 61
- LOUIS CHARLES MOOREPrivate First Class · Panel 46W, Line 61
- ROBERT BRUCE RANDALLPrivate First Class · Panel 46W, Line 62
- GERALD WAYNE SPRINGERPrivate First Class · Panel 45W, Line 3
- JAMES EDWARD WELLSPrivate First Class · Panel 45W, Line 3
From New York
- WALTER R MCCARTHY JRCaptain · June 16, 1962
- JOHN HOWARD MCCLEANCaptain · August 16, 1963
- DONALD ALLAN MOLLICONEFirst Lieutenant · December 20, 1963
- VINCENT JOSEPH HICKMANCaptain · January 14, 1964
- MARTIN STOCKFEDERPrivate First Class · July 15, 1964
- ROBERT GEORGE ARMSTRONGFirst Lieutenant · October 24, 1964
- DOMINICK SANSONESergeant First Class · December 10, 1964
- DONALD GILBERT COOKColonel · December 31, 1964
- TERENCE MEREDITH MURPHYLieutenant (junior grade) · April 9, 1965
- ROBERT CARL WISTRANDColonel · May 9, 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.