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DAVID BRUCE EMOND
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
March 8, 1945 – July 5, 1968
Service recordDavid Bruce Emond, of Bristol, Connecticut, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on July 5, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 53W, Line 18 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 53W · Line 18
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 Five (SP5)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Utility Helicopter Repairer (67N)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- March 8, 1945
- Home of record
- Bristol, Connecticut (Hartford County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- July 5, 1968
- Age
- 23
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — crew
Context · from the records
What was happening
53 names on the Wall carry the date July 5, 1968; four of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In July 1968, 993 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 80 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 53W, Line 18
- ARTHUR WILLIAM DILWORTHLance Corporal · July 5, 1968
- GERALD THOMAS DUFFEYPrivate First Class · July 5, 1968
- JERRY ECTORPrivate First Class · July 5, 1968
- JOSE GILBERTO GARCIACorporal · July 5, 1968
Same unit, same day
- RUFUS MICHAEL MARTINSergeant · Panel 53W, Line 22
- GARY DALE TEMPLETONPrivate First Class · Panel 53W, Line 24
From Bristol
- EDWARD JOHN CHRISTENSENPrivate · May 18, 1967
- ROLAND PHILLIP LEVESQUESergeant · February 22, 1968
- GILBERT THIBEAULTPrivate First Class · February 29, 1968
- ROBERT MICHAEL JACOBPrivate First Class · April 4, 1968
- PHILIP FRANK NESTICOCorporal · June 2, 1968
- ALDO EUGENE RYDERPrivate First Class · June 4, 1968
- THOMAS JOSEPH BLANCHARDPrivate First Class · August 7, 1968
- MATTHEW M CANFIELD JRPrivate First Class · November 25, 1968
- DOUGLAS JAMES BEVERIDGESpecialist Four · February 9, 1969
- PETER PHILIP DUBIELPrivate First Class · May 12, 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.