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DAVID CLIFTON SCARBROUGH
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
September 4, 1947 – February 25, 1968
Service recordDavid Clifton Scarbrough, of Marietta, Ohio, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on February 25, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 41E, Line 28 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 41E · Line 28
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Unit (as recorded)
- B CO 1 BN 26 MAR 3 MARDIV
- Born
- September 4, 1947
- Home of record
- Marietta, Ohio (Washington County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 25, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
96 names on the Wall carry the date February 25, 1968; 32 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “B CO 1 BN 26 MAR 3 MARDIV”, his unit in the record, lost 3 of its members that month.
He died in Quảng Trị Province while the siege of Khe Sanh was under way. From 21 January 1968, North Vietnamese divisions besieged the Marine combat base at Khe Sanh and its hill outposts near the Laotian border for 77 days, while U.S. aircraft dropped some 100,000 tons of bombs around it. Operation Pegasus reached the base on 8 April. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Read the history
Also on Panel 41E, Line 28
- GUSTAVO ROTGER JRPrivate First Class · February 25, 1968
- WILLIE JEROME RUFFPrivate First Class · February 25, 1968
- RICHARD MICHAEL SCALACorporal · February 25, 1968
- DANIEL RICHARD SCHUERENCaptain · February 25, 1968
Same unit, same day
- LLOYD WHITFIELD MOOREHospitalman · Panel 41E, Line 25
- RICHARD WAYNE MCKENZIELance Corporal · Panel 41E, Line 26
From Marietta
- DENNIS L PHILLIPSPrivate First Class · July 7, 1966
- RONALD CHARLES DAILEYSpecialist Four · May 29, 1967
- FREDERICK WAYNE TAYLORSpecialist Five · May 15, 1968
- JOSEPH DELMAR RUTTER JRPrivate First Class · May 23, 1968
- DONALD KEITH VADAKINSpecialist Four · December 11, 1968
- JAMES HERBERT DYECorporal · May 13, 1969
- THOMAS MICHAEL BROCKMEIERPrivate First Class · March 7, 1970
- SCOTT RONDAL COPLINCorporal · April 21, 1970
- BRUCE CHARLES SHOVERPrivate First Class · January 16, 1971
- DOUGLAS MILTON SEELEYCaptain · March 17, 1971
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.