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DAVID FRANKLIN OSBORNE
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
December 4, 1949 – May 2, 1969
Service recordDavid Franklin Osborne, of Rockville, Maryland, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on May 2, 1969, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 26W, Line 101 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 26W · Line 101
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- December 4, 1949
- Home of record
- Rockville, Maryland (Montgomery County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 2, 1969
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
46 names on the Wall carry the date May 2, 1969; 14 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In May 1969, 1,456 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 26W, Line 101
- RENE MEDEGUARIPrivate First Class · May 2, 1969
- EARNEST DALE MENLEYSergeant · May 2, 1969
- WALTER JOSEPH MORRISStaff Sergeant · May 2, 1969
- CHARLES WINFRED POOL JRPrivate First Class · May 2, 1969
From Rockville
- FRANCES F NOVELLOSergeant · September 3, 1965
- GERALD LEE CROSBYPrivate First Class · June 28, 1966
- STEVE WESTLEL HARRISPrivate First Class · August 15, 1966
- TOMMY EUGENE DICKERSONPrivate First Class · May 3, 1967
- ROBERT ROXBURGH GROOMCorporal · November 11, 1967
- AUSTIN RICHARD VONKLEISTSergeant First Class · December 16, 1967
- ROBERT DAVID MASONSeaman · December 21, 1967
- JAMES BUCKNER HALLCorporal · January 4, 1968
- ROBERT WILLIAM ABERNATHYSpecialist Four · March 4, 1968
- BALFOUR OLIVER LYTTON JRStaff Sergeant · March 25, 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.