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DAVID ANTHONY DECOSTE
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
July 1, 1948 – January 20, 1968
Service recordDavid Anthony Decoste, of Minooka, Illinois, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on January 20, 1968, in Kontum Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 34E, Line 85 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 34E · Line 85
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 Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 4 INF DIV
- Born
- July 1, 1948
- Home of record
- Minooka, Illinois (Grundy County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 20, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Kontum
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
57 names on the Wall carry the date January 20, 1968; seven of them were lost in Kon Tum Province. In January 1968, 1,546 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 4th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 78 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 34E, Line 85
- MICHAEL EUGENE DEBUSKSergeant · January 20, 1968
- RICK DUANE DEEDSLance Corporal · January 20, 1968
- GARY LAWRENCE ELIACorporal · January 20, 1968
- JOHN ERNEST ESTENPrivate First Class · January 20, 1968
- EDWARD W TIBBETTSSpecialist Four · January 20, 1968
Same unit, same day
- JAMES HENRY BASS JRPrivate First Class · Panel 34E, Line 83
- RONALD GATES CAMPBELLSpecialist Five · Panel 34E, Line 84
- ANTHONY JOSEPH HENDERSONSpecialist Four · Panel 34E, Line 87
- GERALD N HUNTERPrivate First Class · Panel 34E, Line 87
- ROBERT EARL BUTLERSpecialist Four · Panel 34E, Line 90
- ALLISON A WESTBROOKS JRSpecialist Five · Panel 35E, Line 1
- EULIS NEIL WILKES JRSecond Lieutenant · Panel 35E, Line 1
From Minooka
- CHARLES WARNER BECKERPrivate First Class · September 14, 1969
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.