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DAVID HUGH WYRICK
Lieutenant · U.S. Navy
December 10, 1936 – March 18, 1968
Service recordDavid Hugh Wyrick, of Alliance, Ohio, served as a Lieutenant in the U.S. Navy. He died on March 18, 1968, in Dinh Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 31. His name is inscribed on Panel 45E, Line 32 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 45E · 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. Navy
- Rank
- Lieutenant (LT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Url No Warfare Specialty (1100)
- Unit (as recorded)
- MOBILE RIVERINE FORCE TF 117 SQ 9 ASLT DIV 92
- Born
- December 10, 1936
- Home of record
- Alliance, Ohio (Multiple County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 18, 1968
- Age
- 31
- Province
- Dinh Tuong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
82 names on the Wall carry the date March 18, 1968; two of them were lost in Định Tường Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in Định Tường Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Also on Panel 45E, Line 32
- GARRY EUGENE KINGStaff Sergeant · March 18, 1968
- KENNETH EUGENE WILLARD JRPrivate First Class · March 18, 1968
- HOWARD KEITH WILLIAMSLieutenant Colonel · March 18, 1968
- CLINTON CARL WUSTERBARTHCorporal · March 18, 1968
From Alliance
- LEE CELIN WAGNER JRFirst Lieutenant · May 16, 1965
- WILLIAM GENE MAIN JRSpecialist Four · July 28, 1966
- LARRY LAMARR DEANStaff Sergeant · January 8, 1967
- THOMAS ANGELO MANGINOStaff Sergeant · April 21, 1967
- DENNIS JAMES WAHLSpecialist Four · July 21, 1967
- RALPH EDWARD HUNT JRFirst Lieutenant · June 7, 1968
- ALVIS RAY FAVERTY JRWarrant Officer 1 · August 18, 1968
- WILLIAM WAYNE WOODSergeant · February 20, 1970
- ROBERT BRUCE MICHALKSpecialist Four · January 7, 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.