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DAVID ALLEN PITTS
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
April 26, 1949 – February 19, 1968
Service recordDavid Allen Pitts, of Quincy, Massachusetts, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on February 19, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 40E, Line 28 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 40E · Line 28
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- April 26, 1949
- Home of record
- Quincy, Massachusetts (Norfolk County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 19, 1968
- Age
- 18
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
93 names on the Wall carry the date February 19, 1968; 19 of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in Thừa Thiên Province while the Battle of Huế was under way. At Huế (31 January–2 March 1968), Marines, soldiers of the 1st Cavalry and 101st Airborne divisions and South Vietnamese troops fought house to house for 26 days to retake the old imperial capital, the longest urban battle of the war. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Also on Panel 40E, Line 28
- JOHN PASS IIISpecialist Four · February 19, 1968
- WALTER MARCELLU PATTERSONPrivate First Class · February 19, 1968
- JAMES DOUGLAS PENTLANDSpecialist Four · February 19, 1968
- SEVENTY J POLLOCKStaff Sergeant · February 19, 1968
From Quincy
- GEORGE WARREN UNDERWOODSpecialist Four · July 23, 1964
- EDWARD ALAN BRUDNOCaptain · June 3, 1973
- RICHARD JOHN VASCONCELLOSPrivate First Class · August 15, 1966
- JOHN WILLIAM GRANAHANLance Corporal · July 5, 1967
- BRIAN PAUL AHERNLance Corporal · January 7, 1968
- CHARLES LAWRENCE BIFOLCHIMajor · January 8, 1968
- PAUL VINCENT GRASSOLance Corporal · May 4, 1968
- RICHARD SHIRLEY DAVIS JRSpecialist Four · June 6, 1968
- RALPH JOHN WILLARDWarrant Officer 1 · July 21, 1968
- JAMES MICHAEL WALSHSpecialist Four · August 8, 1968
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.