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DAVID GEOFFREY RANKIN
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
April 14, 1947 – March 12, 1969
Service recordDavid Geoffrey Rankin, of Muncie, Indiana, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on March 12, 1969, in Kontum Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 29W, Line 22 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 29W · Line 22
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 Five (SP5)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Wire Systems Equipment Repairer (35N)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 AVN BDE
- Born
- April 14, 1947
- Home of record
- Muncie, Indiana (Delaware County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 12, 1969
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Kontum
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
48 names on the Wall carry the date March 12, 1969; nine of them were lost in Kon Tum Province. In March 1969, 1,553 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Aviation Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 44 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 29W, Line 22
- DALMACIO P PASCUA JRStaff Sergeant · March 12, 1969
- PAUL JOSEPH PEOPLESSpecialist Four · March 12, 1969
- THOMAS CHARLES PRANGEPrivate First Class · March 12, 1969
- JOHN ARTHUR RAMIREZCorporal · March 12, 1969
From Muncie
- NEIL BERNARD MCKINNEYFirst Lieutenant · September 2, 1963
- ROBERT LEWIS CLARKStaff Sergeant · May 16, 1965
- FRED YOUEL WRIGHT JRPrivate First Class · March 22, 1966
- EDWARD C ZIMMERMAN JRLance Corporal · June 25, 1966
- GLENDON LEE AMMONColonel · September 21, 1966
- ELMER LEVERNE BUCHANANPrivate First Class · September 24, 1966
- THOMAS JOSEPH CAREYSergeant · January 26, 1967
- HARVEY GRANT HOWE JRWarrant Officer 1 · January 28, 1967
- ALAN CRAIG SHROYERPrivate First Class · March 4, 1967
- CHARLES DUANE SAYLORSpecialist Four · March 12, 1967
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.