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DAVID DEWITT CREEL
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
May 12, 1948 – November 27, 1968
Service recordDavid Dewitt Creel, of Long Beach, Mississippi, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on November 27, 1968, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 38W, Line 72 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 38W · Line 72
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
- Avionic Communications Equipment Repairer (35L)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 AVN BDE
- Born
- May 12, 1948
- Home of record
- Long Beach, Mississippi (Harrison County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 27, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — crew
Context · from the records
What was happening
61 names on the Wall carry the date November 27, 1968; 33 of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In November 1968, 918 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Aviation Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 33 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 38W, Line 72
- RONALD CHARLES CUNNINGHAMSergeant · November 27, 1968
- JERRY MARTIN DAUBERCorporal · November 27, 1968
- GORDON EARL DEGARMOFirst Lieutenant · November 27, 1968
- FREDRICK HARRY FRAZERSpecialist Four · November 27, 1968
Same unit, same day
- NICHOLAS RICHARD ALEXANDERChief Warrant Officer 2 · Panel 38W, Line 70
- JAMES GREGORY BRADYSpecialist Four · Panel 38W, Line 71
- FREDRICK HARRY FRAZERSpecialist Four · Panel 38W, Line 72
- JEROME DEE CHANDLERSergeant · Panel 38W, Line 73
- ALLEN EUGENE DUNEMANWarrant Officer 1 · Panel 38W, Line 73
- AUGUST KARL RITZAUFirst Lieutenant · Panel 38W, Line 78
From Long Beach
- EDWARD ALOYSIUS BLAKECaptain · October 29, 1964
- LEO MEYERS BRELANDSpecialist Four · April 26, 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.