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DAVID DAN FOSTER
Private First Class · U.S. Army
November 2, 1948 – January 5, 1969
Service recordDavid Dan Foster, of Gray, Maine, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on January 5, 1969, in Kien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 35W, Line 38 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 35W · Line 38
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- November 2, 1948
- Home of record
- Gray, Maine (Cumberland County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 5, 1969
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Kien Hoa
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
21 names on the Wall carry the date January 5, 1969; five of them were lost in Kien Hoa Province. In January 1969, 985 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 114 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 35W, Line 38
- GERALD ROBERT ABBENHAUS JRPrivate First Class · December 4, 1968
- LLOYD ARTHUR FEDERCorporal · January 5, 1969
- MICHAEL GALEALance Corporal · January 5, 1969
- LEO ALLEN GEORGEPrivate First Class · January 5, 1969
- ERIC STUART GOLDSergeant · January 5, 1969
Same unit, same day
- MICHAEL CROWDERSpecialist Four · Panel 35W, Line 37
- LEO ALLEN GEORGEPrivate First Class · Panel 35W, Line 38
- KENNETH ALLEN MASONCorporal · Panel 35W, Line 39
- RAYMOND LEE SIPPrivate First Class · Panel 35W, Line 40
From Gray
- JAMES RUSSELL WESTPrivate First Class · January 24, 1968
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.