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DAVID ALLEN WORTHEY
Corporal · U.S. Army
July 12, 1947 – May 13, 1968
Service recordDavid Allen Worthey, of Flora, Illinois, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Army. He died on May 13, 1968, in Kontum Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 60E, Line 7 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 60E · Line 7
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Corporal (CPL)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 11 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- July 12, 1947
- Home of record
- Flora, Illinois (Clay County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 13, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Kontum
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Drowning
Context · from the records
What was happening
101 names on the Wall carry the date May 13, 1968; he was the only one lost in Kon Tum Province that day. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 11th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 48 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 60E, Line 7
- RICHARD DALE WOODCorporal · May 13, 1968
- STEVEN DALE ZUCROFFCorporal · May 13, 1968
- VESA JUHANI ALAKULPPICaptain · May 14, 1968
- EDWARD ANDERSONCorporal · May 14, 1968
Same unit, same day
- STEPHAN CODRINGTONCorporal · Panel 59E, Line 18
- BURL DENTON HEWITTCorporal · Panel 59E, Line 23
From Flora
- HENRY EUGENE COPLEY JRCorporal · June 13, 1970
- GARY BRUCE GLASSFORDSpecialist Five · September 11, 1970
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.