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DAVID CARSON CUNNINGHAM
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
August 23, 1945 – March 24, 1967
Service recordDavid Carson Cunningham, of Fall River Mills, California, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on March 24, 1967, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 17E, Line 34 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 17E · Line 34
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Armor Reconnaissance Specialist (11D)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 11 ARMORED CAV
- Born
- August 23, 1945
- Home of record
- Fall River Mills, California (Shasta County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 24, 1967
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
39 names on the Wall carry the date March 24, 1967; he was the only one lost in Tây Ninh Province that day. In March 1967, 1,091 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “11 ARMORED CAV”, his unit in the record, lost 13 of its members that month.
He died in Tây Ninh Province while Operation Junction City was under way. Operation Junction City (22 February–14 May 1967), in War Zone C along the Cambodian border, was the largest U.S. operation of the war to that time and included the only major American combat parachute assault of the war. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Also on Panel 17E, Line 34
- PETER GIRARD CODYPrivate First Class · March 24, 1967
- EDWARD JOHN CONWAYPrivate First Class · March 24, 1967
- CHRISTIAN JOHN ECKERDT JRPrivate First Class · March 24, 1967
From Fall River Mills
- NORMAN DOYAL GROVESpecialist Four · September 15, 1967
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.