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DAVID ISOM
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
May 10, 1946 – February 23, 1968
Service recordDavid Isom, of Cottongim, Kentucky, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on February 23, 1968, in Long Khanh Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 40E, Line 75 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 40E · Line 75
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Armor Reconnaissance Specialist (11D)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 11 ARMORED CAV
- Born
- May 10, 1946
- Home of record
- Cottongim, Kentucky (Clay County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 23, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Long Khanh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
56 names on the Wall carry the date February 23, 1968; two of them were lost in Long Khanh Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “11 ARMORED CAV”, his unit in the record, lost 13 of its members that month.
He died in Long Khanh 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 40E, Line 75
- WESLEY EUGENE HODGESCorporal · February 23, 1968
- GEORGE LAWRENCE HUBLERCaptain · February 23, 1968
- RICHARD ALAN HUEFFNERPrivate First Class · February 23, 1968
- MICHAEL EDWARD MCKEEVERLance Corporal · February 23, 1968
Same unit, same day
- JAMES RONALD OAKLEYPrivate First Class · Panel 41E, Line 4
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.