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DAVID GREGORY SALINAS
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
June 6, 1949 – April 19, 1968
Service recordDavid Gregory Salinas, of Bangor, Michigan, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on April 19, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 51E, Line 2 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 51E · Line 2
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
- Machinegunner (0331)
- Born
- June 6, 1949
- Home of record
- Bangor, Michigan (Van Buren County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 19, 1968
- Age
- 18
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
67 names on the Wall carry the date April 19, 1968; 12 of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 51E, Line 2
- CLIFFORD LLOYD SELLPrivate First Class · April 19, 1968
- PHILIP RAYMOND SHAFERSpecialist Six · April 19, 1968
- CARY JOSEPH SMITHSergeant · April 19, 1968
- MICHAEL JOHN WALLACESergeant First Class · April 19, 1968
From Bangor
- CHARLES D MCCLURGPrivate First Class · December 25, 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.