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Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966.
Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966. Photo: SP5 Charles V. Hoover, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of David Edward Herschbach.

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DAVID EDWARD HERSCHBACH

Warrant Officer 1 · U.S. Army

August 16, 1948 – March 21, 1969

Service record

David Edward Herschbach, of East St Louis, Illinois, served as a Warrant Officer 1 in the U.S. Army. He died on March 21, 1969, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 29W, Line 99 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 29W · Line 99

Position of Panel 29W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Warrant Officer 1 (WO1)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Occupation
Helicopter Pilot, Utility And Light Cargo Single Rotor (062B)
Unit (as recorded)
1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
Born
August 16, 1948
Home of record
East St Louis, Illinois (St Clair County)

Casualty

Date of death
March 21, 1969
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

83 names on the Wall carry the date March 21, 1969; 18 of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In March 1969, 1,553 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 156 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 29W, Line 99

Same unit, same day

From East St Louis

All 58 names from East St Louis →

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.