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DAVID ELSON HOMMEL
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
December 14, 1946 – November 21, 1967
Service recordDavid Elson Hommel, of Mt Pleasant, Pennsylvania, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on November 21, 1967, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 30E, Line 56 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 30E · Line 56
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- December 14, 1946
- Home of record
- Mt Pleasant, Pennsylvania (Multiple County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 21, 1967
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Binh Duong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
43 names on the Wall carry the date November 21, 1967; ten of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In November 1967, 1,133 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 91 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 30E, Line 56
- WILLIAM CECIL HINKLEPrivate First Class · November 21, 1967
- FLOYD ALLAN HYDERCorporal · November 21, 1967
- GERALD KLOSSEKPrivate First Class · November 21, 1967
- ROBERT LEONARD MCCARTERPrivate First Class · November 21, 1967
Same unit, same day
- KENT EUGENE BAHNSENSergeant · Panel 30E, Line 53
- WILLARD THURMAN BATEMANSpecialist Four · Panel 30E, Line 53
- DAVID RAWSON BLACKMAN IIIPrivate First Class · Panel 30E, Line 53
- GARY MAURICE BRIXENStaff Sergeant · Panel 30E, Line 54
- RODGER KENNETH CAINSpecialist Four · Panel 30E, Line 54
- DAVID LEE EATONSpecialist Four · Panel 30E, Line 54
- NORMAN ROBERT GOBLESpecialist Four · Panel 30E, Line 55
- FLOYD ALLAN HYDERCorporal · Panel 30E, Line 56
- KEVIN ANTHONY PORTERFirst Lieutenant · Panel 30E, Line 59
From Mt Pleasant
- CHARLES LOUIS ZOOGPrivate First Class · March 6, 1966
- THOMAS BLAIR KEMERERLance Corporal · July 19, 1966
- WILLIAM GEORGE WILKINSPrivate · April 2, 1968
- RONALD ELI ALINCICPrivate First Class · October 12, 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.