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DAVID ANDREW BINGHAM
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
October 20, 1948 – January 22, 1968
Service recordDavid Andrew Bingham, of Melrose, Massachusetts, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on January 22, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 35E, Line 10 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 35E · Line 10
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
- Assaultman (0351)
- Born
- October 20, 1948
- Home of record
- Melrose, Massachusetts (Middlesex County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 22, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
13 names on the Wall carry the date January 22, 1968; eight of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In January 1968, 1,546 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in Quảng Trị Province while the siege of Khe Sanh was under way. From 21 January 1968, North Vietnamese divisions besieged the Marine combat base at Khe Sanh and its hill outposts near the Laotian border for 77 days, while U.S. aircraft dropped some 100,000 tons of bombs around it. Operation Pegasus reached the base on 8 April. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Read the history
Also on Panel 35E, Line 10
- JERRY OSCAR STENBERGLance Corporal · January 21, 1968
- BOBBY WESTSergeant · January 21, 1968
- LARRY FREDERICK WHITELance Corporal · January 21, 1968
- RICHARD SCOTT BYARSCorporal · January 22, 1968
From Melrose
- JAMES G DUNTONFirst Lieutenant · December 8, 1964
- HAROLD HERMAN HIRTLEMaster Sergeant · October 3, 1966
- MICHAEL ALLEN DEPROFIOCorporal · April 17, 1967
- GARDNER BREWERMajor · September 14, 1967
- RICHARD L NORTONPrivate First Class · December 15, 1967
- STEPHEN THOMAS SULLIVANLance Corporal · May 28, 1968
- THOMAS JOHN BRENNANSpecialist Five · June 18, 1968
- SCOTT FREDERICK ANDRESENCorporal · May 13, 1969
- CARLETON PIERCE MILLER JRLieutenant (junior grade) · January 6, 1971
- KENNETH WARREN ELLISStaff Sergeant · September 26, 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.