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DAVID ALLEN TRINKALA
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
December 28, 1944 – May 11, 1969
Service recordDavid Allen Trinkala, of Heidelberg, Pennsylvania, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on May 11, 1969, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 25W, Line 56 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 25W · Line 56
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
- Specialist Five (SP5)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Food Service Specialist (94B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- December 28, 1944
- Home of record
- Heidelberg, Pennsylvania (Allegheny County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 11, 1969
- Age
- 24
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
65 names on the Wall carry the date May 11, 1969; two of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In May 1969, 1,456 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 66 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 25W, Line 56
- WILLIAM SHELLEY SLAUGHTERSpecialist Five · May 11, 1969
- ROBERT B STARKES JRPrivate First Class · May 11, 1969
- WILLIAM HENRY SWANSONPrivate · May 11, 1969
- CLIFFORD KAZUMI TAIRASpecialist Four · May 11, 1969
Same unit, same day
- THOMAS WILLIAM HASTINGSFirst Lieutenant · Panel 25W, Line 49
- HUBERT SAMUEL TILLEY JRStaff Sergeant · Panel 25W, Line 55
- VICTOR MANUEL YANEZSergeant · Panel 25W, Line 58
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.