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DAVID BRANTLEY ALTMAN
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
March 17, 1945 – October 6, 1967
Service recordDavid Brantley Altman, of Blackshear, Georgia, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on October 6, 1967, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 27E, Line 57 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 27E · Line 57
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- March 17, 1945
- Home of record
- Blackshear, Georgia (Pierce County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 6, 1967
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Binh Duong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
31 names on the Wall carry the date October 6, 1967; six of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In October 1967, 906 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 42 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 27E, Line 57
- GABRIEL BACAPrivate First Class · October 6, 1967
- DANNY DALE BURKHEADSpecialist Four · October 6, 1967
- ROBERT GENE BURLINGHAMCaptain · October 6, 1967
- JOHNNY RAY CRAWFORDStaff Sergeant · October 6, 1967
Same unit, same day
- GALE ARTHUR ALLDRIDGESergeant · Panel 27E, Line 56
- GABRIEL BACAPrivate First Class · Panel 27E, Line 57
- DANNY DALE BURKHEADSpecialist Four · Panel 27E, Line 57
- CHARLES WILLIAM DAVISFirst Lieutenant · Panel 27E, Line 58
- DON WILLIAM LINTHICUMPrivate First Class · Panel 27E, Line 60
- EDWARD CHARLES MCGRATHSpecialist Four · Panel 27E, Line 60
- TJEERD SCHOELIERSpecialist Four · Panel 27E, Line 61
- PAUL RICHARD SIMONPrivate First Class · Panel 27E, Line 61
- THEODORE NELSON TAKACS JRPrivate First Class · Panel 27E, Line 62
From Blackshear
- CLYDE BENJAMIN TATNALLFirst Sergeant · February 20, 1970
- JAMES DONALD GRIFFINWarrant Officer 1 · May 31, 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.