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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault.
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of David Ellis Threadgill.

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DAVID ELLIS THREADGILL

Private First Class · U.S. Army

April 13, 1947 – November 7, 1966

Service record

David Ellis Threadgill, of Perryton, Texas, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on November 7, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 12E, Line 39 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 12E · Line 39

Position of Panel 12E 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
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
101 AIRBORNE DIV
Born
April 13, 1947
Home of record
Perryton, Texas (Ochiltree County)

Casualty

Date of death
November 7, 1966
Age
19
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Grenade

Context · from the records

What was happening

22 names on the Wall carry the date November 7, 1966. In November 1966, 641 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 19 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 12E, Line 39

Same unit, same day

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.