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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault.
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of David Bruce Matthews.

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DAVID BRUCE MATTHEWS

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

October 31, 1946 – January 12, 1967

Service record

David Bruce Matthews, of Fairbank, Iowa, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on January 12, 1967, in South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 14E, Line 16 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 14E · Line 16

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Firefighter (51M)
Unit (as recorded)
65 ENG BN 25 INF DIV
Born
October 31, 1946
Home of record
Fairbank, Iowa (Buchanan County)

Casualty

Date of death
January 12, 1967
Age
20
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Illness
Circumstance
Infectious Disease

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30 names on the Wall carry the date January 12, 1967. In January 1967, 638 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

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From Fairbank

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.