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DAVID ALLEN WENGER
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
November 6, 1947 – June 9, 1968
Service recordDavid Allen Wenger, of West Lawn, Pennsylvania, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on June 9, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 58W, Line 12 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 58W · Line 12
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Machinegunner (0331)
- Born
- November 6, 1947
- Home of record
- West Lawn, Pennsylvania (Multiple County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 9, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Other Weapons
Context · from the records
What was happening
58 names on the Wall carry the date June 9, 1968; 32 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In June 1968, 1,257 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 58W, Line 12
- DAVID EUGENE NASHSergeant · June 9, 1968
- RICHARD LOREN NOWRYCorporal · June 9, 1968
- JOSEPH OLESON JRFirst Lieutenant · June 9, 1968
- RAMON OQUENDO-GUTIERREZSpecialist Four · June 9, 1968
From West Lawn
- KENNETH WILLIAM WICKELCorporal · May 29, 1966
- KENNETH EARL SANDSCorporal · March 30, 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.