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DAVID FORREST BLACK
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
October 7, 1948 – March 25, 1969
Service recordDavid Forrest Black, of Pickens, South Carolina, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on March 25, 1969, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 28W, Line 32 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 28W · Line 32
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 Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- October 7, 1948
- Home of record
- Pickens, South Carolina (Pickens County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 25, 1969
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
51 names on the Wall carry the date March 25, 1969; seven of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In March 1969, 1,553 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 71 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 28W, Line 32
- LUCIANO ARIASCorporal · March 25, 1969
- JAMES HAROLD ARMSTRONGSergeant · March 25, 1969
- JIMMY DALE BEANFirst Lieutenant · March 25, 1969
- GERNOT BENDERStaff Sergeant · March 25, 1969
Same unit, same day
- WILLIE CLAY DOZIERSergeant · Panel 28W, Line 34
- STEVE FLAHERTYSergeant · Panel 28W, Line 35
- CARTER LEE GRAVESSergeant · Panel 28W, Line 35
- ROBERT F MCDONALD IIPrivate First Class · Panel 28W, Line 35
- PRENTICE WAYNE HICKSSergeant First Class · Panel 28W, Line 37
- MICHAEL LEE MALINSpecialist Four · Panel 28W, Line 38
- RENE CLARENCE MISCHEAUXCorporal · Panel 28W, Line 38
From Pickens
- CHARLES JOHNSON JRSpecialist Four · March 30, 1966
- JERRY HIOTT WILLIAMSSergeant · June 24, 1966
- LEE LEWISSpecialist Four · February 16, 1967
- DWIGHT ONEAL GILSTRAPPrivate First Class · April 28, 1967
- CLIFTON RANDAL JONESLance Corporal · January 21, 1968
- EPHRIAM RUTLEDGE LILES IIWarrant Officer 1 · July 4, 1969
- JOE DAVID WRIGHTCorporal · December 15, 1969
- WOODROW BEAL CHASTAINSpecialist Four · August 15, 1971
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.