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DAVID HENRY SHIFLETT
Private First Class · U.S. Army
January 7, 1947 – May 11, 1969
Service recordDavid Henry Shiflett, of Montrose, West Virginia, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on May 11, 1969, in Kontum Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 25W, Line 55 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 25W · Line 55
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Track Vehicle Repairer (63H)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 LOGISTIC CMD
- Born
- January 7, 1947
- Home of record
- Montrose, West Virginia (Randolph County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 11, 1969
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Kontum
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
65 names on the Wall carry the date May 11, 1969; eight of them were lost in Kon Tum Province. In May 1969, 1,456 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “1 LOGISTIC CMD”, his unit in the record, lost 20 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 25W, Line 55
- SAMUEL BRUCE SCHWARTZPrivate · May 11, 1969
- RONALD LEE SHROPSHIRELance Corporal · May 11, 1969
- HAROLD RILEY SIMONDSPrivate First Class · May 11, 1969
- HUBERT SAMUEL TILLEY JRStaff Sergeant · May 11, 1969
Same unit, same day
- JAMES CLAIBORNE WILSONPrivate First Class · Panel 25W, Line 58
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.