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DAVID ALLEN PADDOCK
First Lieutenant · U.S. Army
May 31, 1945 – June 7, 1968
Service recordDavid Allen Paddock, of Cortland, New York, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on June 7, 1968, in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 59W, Line 26 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 59W · Line 26
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
- First Lieutenant (1LT)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Combat Engineer Unit Commander (1331)
- Unit (as recorded)
- HHC 19 ENG BN USARV
- Born
- May 31, 1945
- Home of record
- Cortland, New York (Cortland County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 7, 1968
- Age
- 23
- Province
- Quang Ngai
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
59 names on the Wall carry the date June 7, 1968; four of them were lost in Quảng Ngãi Province. In June 1968, 1,257 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “HHC 19 ENG BN USARV”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 59W, Line 26
- DONALD HARRY HARTNESSLance Corporal · June 7, 1968
- PHILL GENE MCDONALDPrivate First Class · June 7, 1968
- PAUL MARTIN MCGRATHSecond Lieutenant · June 7, 1968
- JOHNNY LEE PROCTORPrivate First Class · June 7, 1968
Same unit, same day
- ROBERT JAY WESTRATESergeant · Panel 59W, Line 29
From Cortland
- JAMES ANTHONY GALUTZCorporal · April 20, 1967
- THOMAS WENDELL GOODRICHLance Corporal · May 26, 1967
- DOUGLAS J GLOVERSergeant First Class · February 19, 1968
- CARL ALVIN SHUTT JRSpecialist Four · March 27, 1968
- CLIFFORD LYMAN EATONPrivate First Class · June 5, 1968
- BISHOP SKIP BARANOWSKISpecialist Four · July 8, 1969
- ROBERT VICTOR MOOREPetty Officer Third Class · July 18, 1969
- JOSEPH ANTHONY CERIOCorporal · May 22, 1970
- WILLIAM PHELPSCaptain · November 23, 1971
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.