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A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967.
A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967. Photo: SP5 Robert C. Lafoon, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of David Allen Nolan.

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DAVID ALLEN NOLAN

First Lieutenant · U.S. Army

November 23, 1941 – August 15, 1967

Service record

David Allen Nolan, of Minneapolis, Minnesota, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on August 15, 1967, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 24E, Line 115 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 24E · Line 115

Position of Panel 24E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
First Lieutenant (1LT)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Occupation
Tank Unit Commander (1203)
Unit (as recorded)
A CO 1 BN 69 ARM 25 INF DIV
Born
November 23, 1941
Home of record
Minneapolis, Minnesota (Hennepin County)

Casualty

Date of death
August 15, 1967
Age
25
Province
Binh Dinh
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Unknown

Context · from the records

What was happening

27 names on the Wall carry the date August 15, 1967; four of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In August 1967, 683 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 24E, Line 115

From Minneapolis

All 193 names from Minneapolis →

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.