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DAVID ALLEN FLESKES
Constructionman · U.S. Navy
December 28, 1947 – August 23, 1968
Service recordDavid Allen Fleskes, of Ft Dodge, Iowa, served as a Constructionman in the U.S. Navy. He died on August 23, 1968, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 47W, Line 41 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 47W · Line 41
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. Navy
- Rank
- Constructionman (CN)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Constructionman (CN)
- Unit (as recorded)
- NMCB 62 3 NC BDE
- Born
- December 28, 1947
- Home of record
- Ft Dodge, Iowa (Webster County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 23, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
111 names on the Wall carry the date August 23, 1968; 51 of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In August 1968, 1,313 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 47W, Line 41
- MIKE PATRICIO ESPINOZALance Corporal · August 23, 1968
- JOSEPH ERNEST FALARDEAUSpecialist Four · August 23, 1968
- WALTER FERGUSON JRStaff Sergeant · August 23, 1968
- MICHAEL DAVID FIXPrivate First Class · August 23, 1968
From Ft Dodge
- TERRENCE HASTINGS GRIFFEYFirst Lieutenant · May 26, 1966
- DONALD KAY LAKEYSergeant · November 1, 1966
- DONALD HENRY HOLMSpecialist Four · November 18, 1967
- ROGER LEWIS OLSONHospitalman · March 26, 1968
- RICHARD T FLATTERY JRFirst Lieutenant · May 20, 1968
- LESLIE DEWAYNE CROUSELieutenant Colonel · August 31, 1968
- WILLIAM LEE PETERS JRFirst Lieutenant · June 21, 1969
- WILLIAM HARRISON PEASESpecialist Four · April 16, 1970
- TIMOTHY LEE GREENSergeant · May 7, 1970
- DARYL DAVID SHONKACorporal · August 5, 1970
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.